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Question 1. Describe how a rock may change during metamorphism
Question 2. What drives metamorphism?
Question 3. How is confining pressure different from differential stress?
Question 4. What is foliation? Distinguish between slaty cleavage, schistosity, and gneissic textures.
Question 5. Briefly describe the three mechanisms by which minerals develop a preferred orientation.
Question 6. List some changes that might occur to a rock in response to metamorphic processes.
Question 7. In the rock mica schist, what does mica indicate and what does schist indicate?
Question 8. How are marble and quartzite similar? How are they different?
Question 9. Distinguish between contact metamorphism and regional metamorphism. Which creases the greater quantity of metamorphic rock?
Question 10. What is hydrothermal metamorphism and where does it most occur?