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Contents
Preface vii L ABOR A T OR Y 3
Measurement Units xi Mineral Properties, Identification, and
Mathematical Conversions xii Uses 73
Laboratory Equipment xiii ACTIVITY 3.1 Mineral and Rock Inquiry 74
ACTIVITY 3.2 Mineral Properties 77
World Map xiv
ACTIVITY 3.3 Determining Specific Gravity (SG) 86
L ABOR A T OR Y 1 ACTIVITY 3.4 Mineral Identification and Uses 88
ACTIVITY 3.5 The Mineral Dependency Crisis 89
Thinking Like a Geologist 1 ACTIVITY 3.6 Urban Ore 99
ACTIVITY 1.1 Geologic Inquiry 3
ACTIVITY 1.2 Spheres of Matter, Energy, and Change 9 L ABOR A T OR Y 4
ACTIVITY 1.3 Modeling Earth Materials and Rock-Forming Processes and the Rock
Processes 14
ACTIVITY 1.4 Measuring and Determining Cycle 111
Relationships 14 ACTIVITY 4.1 Rock Inquiry 112
ACTIVITY 1.5 Density, Gravity, and Isostasy 20 ACTIVITY 4.2 What Are Rocks Made Of? 113
ACTIVITY 1.6 Isostasy and Earth’s Global ACTIVITY 4.3 Rock-forming Minerals 117
Topography 22 ACTIVITY 4.4 What Is Rock Texture? 117
ACTIVITY 4.5 Rocks and the Rock Cycle Model 119
L ABOR A T OR Y 2
Plate Tectonics and the Origin of L ABOR A T OR Y 5
Magma 39 Igneous Rocks and Processes 129
ACTIVITY 2.1 Plate Motion Inquiry Using GPS Time- ACTIVITY 5.1 Igneous Rock Inquiry 130
Series 43 ACTIVITY 5.2 Minerals That Form Igneous
ACTIVITY 2.2 Is Plate Tectonics Caused by a Change in Rocks 130
Earth’s Size? 45 ACTIVITY 5.3 Estimate Rock Composition 131
ACTIVITY 2.3 Lava Lamp Model of Earth 46 ACTIVITY 5.4 Glassy and Vesicular Textures of Igneous
ACTIVITY 2.4 Paleomagnetic Stripes and Seafloor Rocks 133
Spreading 47 ACTIVITY 5.5 Crystalline Textures of Igneous
ACTIVITY 2.5 Atlantic Seafloor Spreading 49 Rocks 134
ACTIVITY 2.6 Using Earthquakes to Identify Plate ACTIVITY 5.6 Rock Analysis, Classification, and
Boundaries 50 Origin 135
ACTIVITY 2.7 San Andreas Transform-Boundary Plate ACTIVITY 5.7 Thin Section Analysis and Bowen’s
Motions 50 Reaction Series 135
ACTIVITY 2.8 Hot Spots and Plate Motions 50 ACTIVITY 5.8 Analysis and Interpretation of Igneous
ACTIVITY 2.9 The Origin of Magma 51 Rocks 141
ACTIVITY 5.9 Geologic History of Southeastern
Pennsylvania 142
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