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1 OBSIDIAN

Black hard volcanic glass lava that cools without forming crystals curved fractured surfaces glassy texture

3 GRANITE
coarse (rough), made of minerals including quartz white to light gray or pink with black no lines or layers

2 Basalt
makes up worlds oceanic crust dark gray or black fine grained (smooth) hard to break

4 PUMICE
light to medium gray looks like a sponge very light, floats in water porous (holes)

5 SANDSTONE
red to brown, light gray to white made up of sand size pieces pressed together layers

7 LIMESTONE
white, gray, tan, yellow can have some red or black can be smooth, or medium (a little rough) can't see crystals may contain fossils

6 SHALE
fine grained (smooth) black, gray, red, brown,dark green soft, split in layers

8 CONGLOMERATE
looks like mixture of sand and different size pebbles harder various colors

9 MARBLE
usually pure white very coarse (rough) crystals can see easily soft,

11 SLATE
Black, gray, dark red, bluish!greenish gray "#$% fine grained (tiny pieces!smooth) thin, flat layers splites easily

10 SCHIST
bottom layers are silvery, green, brown, black small flaky crystals thin layers layers are wavy medium to coarse grani ( smooth!rough) splits easily top

12 GNEISS
light in color but can be dark looks like it has ribbons or stripes of minerals running through the rock grain is coarse (bigger pieces!rougher) doesn't break into layers crystals are lined up in layers tough, hard

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