ROCK NAME

STRUCTURE /FABRIC Bounded

COLOUR

GRAIN SIZE

SPACING

ROUGHNESS

Phylite

Grey

Very Fine

Undulating Rough Undulating Rough Stepped Smooth Planar Smooth

Graphitic Schist

Foliated

Black

Very Fine

Very Closely

Granite Gneiss

Massive

Brownish Grey Large

Pink Quartzite

Massive

Pink

Very Fine

Tourmaline Corundum Quartzite

Massive

Olive Black

Fine

Stepped Smooth Undulating Rough

Massive

Yellowish Grey

Coarse

DESCRIPTION Bounded, grey, very fine grain, PHYLITE. No spacing, the roughness is undulating rough.

PICTURE

Foliated, black, very fine grain, GRAPHITIC SCHIST. The spacing is very closely, the roughness is undulating rough.

Massive, brownish grey, large grain, GRANITE GNEISS. No spacing, the roughness is stepped smooth.

Massive, pink, very fine grain, PINK QUARTZITE. No spacing, the roughness is planar smooth.

Massive, olive black, fine grain, TOURMALINE CORUNDUM. No spacing, the roughness is stepped smooth.

Massive, yellowish, coarse grain, QUARTZITE. No spacing, the roughness is undulating rough .

Conclusion Generally, metamorphic rock exhibit particular characteristic such as foliation. Foliation is seen at the rock graphitic schist in our experiment. Foliation is the shortening of rock along an axis during recrystalisation. Colour of metamorphic rock is prevalently shades of black. We could see such as Phyllite and Granite Gneiss exhibits grey and brownish grey respectively. Metamorphic rock also exhibits very small to no spacing at all which is exhibited by all metamorphic rock experimented. Metamorphic rock is almost always massive. Foliated rocks such as Graphitic Schist is produced from regional metamorphism, while Contact metamorphism is the process of formation for other rocks such as Phyllite. Metamorphic rock also exhibits different textures such as Gneissose for Gneiss, Slaty by Phylite, Schistose for Graphitic Schist and Granoblastic by Quartzite.