Name: Trần Minh Ngọc

Lab 2 – Rock Identification

Fill in the Rock name and photo that corresponding to the description

Description Rock name Photo

Igneous rock that is highest content Felsic Igneous

of silicon, with predominance of rocks
quartz, alkali feldspar and/or
feldspathoids.

Igneous rocks with a very low silica Ultramafic

content (less than 45%), and are rocks
composed of usually greater than
90% mafic minerals (dark colored,
high magnesium and iron content).

Igneous rock that low content of Mafic rocks

silicon (less than 60%), with
predominance of minerals such as
pyroxenes, olivines and calcic
plagioclase; these rocks are usually
dark coloured.

Magmatic rock with the mineral Phaneritic

grains can generally be identified
with nake eye

Magmatic rocks are smooth, Aphanitic

crystalline and fine grained
Rock are composed of dominantly Breccias
angular gravel

Clastic sediment rock composed of Sandstone

sand-sized grains (can be identified
by nake eye) of mineral, rock or
organic material

Extremely fine-grained sedimentary Mudstone

rock consisting of a mixture of clay
and silt-sized particles