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Metamorphic Rock Types & Features

The document describes different types of regional metamorphic rocks including slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss, migmatite, and amphibolite based on their protolith, appearance, and distinguishing features. It also covers types of contact metamorphic rocks like marble, quartzite, and hornfels and dynamic metamorphic rocks such as mylonite. Key features mentioned include luster, grain size, presence of micas or other minerals, foliation, and reaction to acid.

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Metamorphic Rock Types & Features

The document describes different types of regional metamorphic rocks including slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss, migmatite, and amphibolite based on their protolith, appearance, and distinguishing features. It also covers types of contact metamorphic rocks like marble, quartzite, and hornfels and dynamic metamorphic rocks such as mylonite. Key features mentioned include luster, grain size, presence of micas or other minerals, foliation, and reaction to acid.

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TYPE OF REGIONAL METAMORPHIC ROCKS

Name : Slate
Protolith : Fine grain (shalestone, mudstone)
Features : Dull, grey or any color, slaty cleavage,
micas doesn’t visible with naked eye, easy to
break on its foliation

Name : Phyllite
Protolith : Any rock
Features : Shiny, grey or any color, foliated but
sometimes wrinkle, micas visible with naked
eye (larger than slate), glittering from micas
mineral

Name : Schist
Protolith : Any rock
Features : Shiny, silver or any color, strong
foliated cleavage, micas clearly seen with naked
eyes (larger than phyllite), garnet or kyanite
sometimes observed

Name : Gneiss
Protolith : Any rock (but often coarse grain rocks,
such as granite, conglomerate, breccia)
Features : Dull, micas is weakly seen, banded
between light minerals (feldspar and quartz)
with dark minerals (biotite and amphibolite) or
called lineation
TYPE OF REGIONAL METAMORPHIC ROCKS

Name : Migmatite
Protolith : Any rock (but often coarse grain rocks,
such as granite, conglomerate, breccia)
Features : Dull, micas is weakly seen, banded
between light minerals (feldspar and quartz)
with dark minerals (biotite and amphibolite) or
called lineation, folded gneiss

Name : Amphibolite
Protolith : Mafic igneous rock (gabbro, diorite,
basalt)
Features : Dull, dark grey, consist of elongated
amphibole and plagioclase, sometimes garnet
observed, can be weakly foliated or not
foliated, medium to coarse grain
TYPE OF CONTACT METAMORPHIC ROCKS

Name : Marble
Protolith : Limestone
Features : Dull, grey, consist of calcite (stable at
high temperature), no or very weak foliated
(due to no pressure involved), react with acid
(release CO2), softer than quartzite

Name : Quartzite
Protolith : Sandstone (high quartz)
Features : Dull, grey, consist of quartz, no or very
weak foliated (due to no pressure involved),
doesn’t react with acid, harder than marble

Name : Hornfels
Protolith : Mudstone or clay-rich rock
Features : Fine grain metamorphosed rock from
product of contact metamorphism, hard to
distinct in hand specimen, mostly equigranular
TYPE OF DYNAMIC (PRESSURE) METAMORPHIC ROCKS

Name : Mylonite
Protolith : Any rock
Features : Emplaced in fault/shear zone, foliated
and lineated, usually consist of porphyroclast
with same composition with matrix, rock flour
as a matrix is product of rock milling in fault
mechanism, brittle to ductile formation
MINERAL INDEX IN METAMORPHIC ROCKS

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