Physical Geo: Rock Identification Paper.
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Rock Identification
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Sample Number | Rock Name | Texture (Foliated or Non-Foliated) | Type of Foliation if foliated | Mineral Composition | Parent Rock | Type of Metamorphism |
37 | Marble | Non-foliated | N/A | Calcite | Limestone | Contact |
38 | Quartzite | Non-foliated | N/A | Quartz | Sandstone | Contact |
39 | Met conglomerate | Non-foliated | N/A | Rock fragments, quartz | Conglomerate | Contact |
40 | Anthracite coal | Non-foliated | N/A | Carbon | Bituminous coal | Contact |
41 | Gneiss | Foliated | Gneissic banding | Feldspar, mica, quartz | Schist | Regional |
42 | Amphibolite | Foliated | Schistose | Amphibole, plagioclase | Basalt or Gabbro | Regional |
43 | Schist | Foliated | Schistose | Mica, quartz | Slate | Regional |
44 | Phyllite | Foliated | Phyllitic | Quartz, mica, chlorite | Mudstone | Regional |
45 | Slate | Foliated | Slaty | Mica | Mudstone | Regional |
References
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Bridges, E. M. (1981). “Soil geography: a subject transformed”. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. 5 (3): 398–407. doi:10.1177/030913338100500303. S2CID131268490. (Soil geography) is a branch of study which lies between geography and soil science and is to be found as a fundamental part of both subjects (Bridges and Davidson, 1981)
Degórski, Marek (2004). “Geografia gleb jako dyscyplina flzycznogeograficzna” [Soil geography as a physical geography discipline] (PDF). Przeglad Geograficzny (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization PAS. 76: 271–288. ISSN0033-2143 – via RCIN. Lay summary. soil geography may be defined as a scientific discipline – within both geography and soil science – that deals with the distribution of soils across the Earth’s surface
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The compilation of Edrisi marks an era in the history of science. Not only is its historical information most interesting and valuable, but its descriptions of many parts of the earth are still authoritative. For three centuries geographers copied his maps without alteration. The relative position of the lakes which form the Nile, as delineated in his work, does not differ greatly from that established by Baker and Stanley more than seven hundred years afterward, and their number is the same.