Cooling of Magma in the air outside of a volcano quickley
Features
Has Holes
Examples
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Formed for Igneous or Sedimentary through heat or pressure
Crystals
Large
From over a long period of time
Small
Forming over a short period of time
Stratagraphic formations
Intrusions
Nonconformity
Where metamorphic rocks get piled with layers of sediment
Disconformity
Sequence of sedimentary rocks which form an intrusion over it with more sediments
Angular Unconformity
Where a tilted layer of sedimentary rock get piled with more sedimentary rocks
Inclusions
A solid, liquid or gaseous foriegn body enclosed in a mineral or rock
Faults
Transform Faults
When rocks move sideways along eachother
Normal Fault
Where rocks rubb against eachother up and down and away from eachother
Reverse Faults
Rubbed against each other diagonally
7 Principles of Geology
1- Principle of Uniformitarianism
Geological processes which have modified the crust now have woked in the same way over geological time
2-Principle of Intrusive relationships
When an igneous rocks cuts into a formation of sedimentary rocks it (intrusion)can be determined that the intrusion is younger than the sedimentary rocks
3- Principle of cross cutting relationships
Faults are younger than the rocks they cut
4- Principle of inclusion and components
If Sedimentary inclusions are found in a formation it must be older than the formation that contains them
5- Principle of original horizontality
States that deposition of sediments occour as horizontal beds
6- The principle of superposition
States that a sedimentary layer of rock, in a tectonically undisturbed area is younger than the one beneath it
7- The principle of faunal succession
Is based on the appearance of fossils in a sedimentary rocks, this can provide a relative age for the formation