Foliated metamorphic rocks such as gneiss phyllite schist and slate have a layered or banded appearance that is produced by exposure to heat and directed pressure.
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The color of marble can range from the purest white to black ranging through the warmer colors in between depending on the other mineral impurities.
Non foliated metamorphic rocks such as hornfels marble quartzite and novaculite do not have a layered or banded appearance.
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Common metamorphic rocks include phyllite schist gneiss quartzite and marble.
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Some kinds of metamorphic rocks granite gneiss and biotite schist are two examples are strongly banded or foliated.
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The preexisting rocks may be igneous sedimentary or other metamorphic rocks.
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It is composed primarily of the mineral calcite caco 3 and usually contains other minerals such as clay minerals micas quartz pyrite iron oxides and graphite under the conditions of metamorphism the calcite in the limestone recrystallizes to form a rock that is.
Marble is a metamorphic rock that forms when limestone is subjected to the heat and pressure of metamorphism.
Foliated means the parallel arrangement of certain mineral grains that gives the rock a striped appearance.
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