Earth Lecture Slide Chapter Five
THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS Section 2 Prentice Hall Earth Science.
Mineralogy – The Study of Minerals Chapter 3 What is a mineral? What are the properties of minerals? What are minerals composed of? How do we know the.
Martian Mineralogy: Important Minerals for Understanding Geological Processes on Mars Liz Rampe (NASA-JSC/ORAU) 9 July 2012 [email protected].
Field Trip #1: Hocking Hills State Park Saturday, October 2nd.
Minerals I Elements of the Earth’s crust Properties of minerals Crystal form Cleavage/Fracture Color, streak, luster Hardness, tenacity Specific gravity.
Mineralogy – The Study of Minerals Chapter 3
Minerals. Matter Anything that takes up space and has mass. Physical Properties: characteristics that can be observed with out changing the composition.
Minerals Why are we studying crystals? Crystals make up minerals Minerals make up rocks Rocks make up the Earth ….aaaannndd this is Geo(earth)science.
Sedimentary Rocks Clastic / Physical / Detrital Chemical Bioclastic /Biochemical
The Terrestrial Planets
Sedimentary Rocks Clastic Systems clast production, transportation, deposition, lithification
