Types of Rocks

Types of Rocks

1. organic Sedimentary rock :Coal

   • Formation
     • plant derbis
   • Types
     • Peat
     • Black coal
       • sub-bituminous coal
       • bituminous coal
     • Lignite
     • Anthracite
   • Location
     • United States
     • China
     • Canada
     • Mongolia
     • India
     • Pakistan
     • South Africa
     • Russia
     • Serbia
     • Belgium
   • Nowdays uses
     • electricity generation
       • coal-burning power plants
       • Steam coal
     • chemical products
       • creosote oil
       • naphthalene
       • phenol
       • benzene
     • soap
     • aspirins
     • solvents
     • dyes
     • plastics and fibers
       • rayon
       • nylon
     • combustible element
       • steel production
         • Heating Coal
           • Coke
       • cement manufacturing
       • alumina refineries
       • paper manufacturers
       • Water boiled
         • Ships
           • Titanic
         • steam locomotive
   • Historical uses
     • Britain
       • 3000–2000 BC
         • funeral pyres
     • Roman Period
       • iron-working
     • China
       • 1000 BCE
         • smelt the copper

2. Metamorphic: Quartzite

   • Famous creations
     • statue of Peraha
     • figure of a baboon
     • statue of Ankhrekhu
   • Nowadays uses
     • decoration in buildings constructions
     • to cover walls
     • for countertops in kitchens
     • crushed quartzite is sometimes used in road construction
     • to produce:
       • ferrosilicon
       • industrial silica sand
       • silicon carbide
   • Location
     • in many countries including
       • Canada
       • United Kingdom
       • United States
   • Historical uses
     • in addition to flint
     • quartz
     • stone tools
   • Formation
     • protolith of sandstone

3. Igneous: Basalt

   • Location
     • The Moon
     • Mars
     • Oceanic Divergent Boundaries
     • Oceanic Hotspots
     • Mantle Plumes & Hotspots Below Continents
   • Nowdays Uses
     • aggregate in construction projects
     • road base
     • concrete aggregate
     • asphalt pavement aggregate
     • railroad ballast
     • filter stone in drain fields
     • Thin slabs of basalt cut and polished
       • floor tiles
       • building veneers
       • monuments
   • Types
     • Tholeiitic basalt
     • MORB
     • Alkali basalt
     • Boninite (high-magnesium form of basalt)
   • Formation
     • three rock-forming environments
       • divergent plate boundaries on the mid-ocean ridge system
         • Hot Rock
       • oceanic hotspots
         • Hawaiian Islands
       • mantle plumes and hotspots beneath continents.
         • vents or fissures
           • Columbia River Flood Basalts
   • Famous Creations
     • Staues
       • Thutmose III
       • Cleopatra VII
   • Historical Uses
     • Ancyent Egipt
     • Romans

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