PDF-Ice Climbers Guide to City of Rocks

1 Believe it or not ice comes to City of Rocks When it does the world class granite face climbing that the City is known for is deserted as folks head for the gym the ski slopes and the fat c. What Heavy climbers need to know. Page 2 of 7 Pigeon Mountain Industries, Inc. 1999 The Results The results of our testing are shown in the table and graph at the end of this article. Here’ “Liquid Hot Magma!”. Igneous Rocks. Rocks formed from cooling of lava or magma. Lava-Melted rock erupted from volcanoes and deposited on the earth’s surface. Cools quickly.. Magma-Melted rock that sits inside the earth in a magma chamber. Cools slowly.. Vocabulary. Sherpa. Context Clue. Since the first British adventurers came to Nepal, a group of native people known as . Sherpas. have worked with climbers as guides and partners.. Definition: . a race of people know for their climbing abilities and ability to adjust to high altitudes quickly. Usually hired to help climbers up the mountain.. UNIT . - . 6. What is Metamorphism. Metamorphism. (from the Greek words for “changing form”) is the process by which rising temperature and changes in other environmental conditions transform rocks and minerals. Mineral and Rock Vocabulary. Rock. Rock is a solid mixture of crystals of one or more minerals. Rocks are categorized into 3 types on how they are made. Each rock in each category is classified (named) by its TEXTURE and COMPOSITION. HIGHER-GRADE REGIONAL METAMORPHICS. Gneiss and Eclogite. 2. High-Grade Regional Metamorphic Facies. Rocks in this laboratory represent high to very high grade regional metamorphic rock. Facies represented are the amphibiolite, granulite, and eclogite facies. Rocks that crystallized directly from a melt. Igneous rocks . Form as magma cools and crystallizes . Rocks formed inside Earth are called . plutonic. or intrusive rocks . Rocks formed on the surface . Bell ringer: . Looking at the pictures, what do you think metamorphic rocks are? . What are Metamorphic Rocks? . Metamorphism means “to change form”.. Metamorphic rocks are rocks that form when . UNIT . 5. What are Sediments. Sediments are loose Earth materials (unconsolidated materials) such as sand . which are . transported by the action of water, wind, glacial ice and . gravity.. These . materials are . Sedimentary-sandstone. Metamorphic- gneiss. Igneous- diorite. 1. What is a Rock?. Naturally Occurring . (not man made). Solid. Mixture of minerals other organic matter. 2. What makes a rock different from a mineral?. Copy the table below and explain the following clues that can be found in rocks.. . Clues. What the clue tells us?. Magnetic particles in rocks.. Fossils in the rocks.. Ripples in the rocks.. Minerals in the rocks. What do rocks look like?. Is this what you thought of?. Or this?. OR THIS????. OR…. THIS!!!!. Rocks can be small or big!. We are going to learn 3 different rocks and how they are made!. Igneous Rock. Types of Rocks. Rock: an aggregate of one or more minerals. Igneous Rocks: crystallize from a magma. Sedimentary Rocks. Clastic: formed by the erosion of pre-existing rocks. Chemical/Biochemical: precipitated from chemical reactions. This . is the chapter in which most of the people in the group start significantly feeling the effects of the journey. Most encounter frostbite or worse, and for the first time the team hits weather that prevents them from going as far as they'd planned. Not yet up as high as Camp Three, they are already pushed back by the unpredictability of Everest. "Even without unleashing the worst it could dish out, the mountain had sent us scurrying for .