1. What are the major chemical groups that comprise minerals (silcates, phosphorites, carbonates, salts. . . )? Give an example of a mineral from each group and what economic value or use that mineral has. Be substantive, complete, and original in your response-do not provide cut-and-paste text. Make sure you give a specific example of each term and use citations as appropriate to support your statements.
2. Define batholith, dike, laccolith, pluton, sill, intrusive, and extrusive. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts-not cut-and-paste definitions. Make sure that you give a specific example for each term and use citations as appropriate to support your statements.
3. Define caldera, flood basalt, pyroclastic rock, shield volcano, strato or composite volano, and two igneous rocks, and phreatic eruption. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts-not cut-and-paste definitions. Make sure tht you give a specific example for each term and use citations as appropriate to support your statements.
4. Define bedding, evaporite, fossil, strata, detrital sediment, and two sedimentary rocks.. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts-not cut-and-paste definitions. Make you give a specific example for each term and use citations as appropriate to support your statements.
5. Define regional metamorphism, shock metamorphism, contact metamorphism, and two metamorphic rocks. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts-not cut-and-paste definitions. Make sure you give a specific example for each term and use citations as appropriate to support your statements.