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Video 1.5.3: Metamorphic Rock

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Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes

Universidad de Mánchester

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Develop a greater appreciation for how the air, water, land, and life formed and have interacted over the last 4.5 billion years.

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Excellent broad content. Ideal for the learner or someone wanting to get to grips with the basics.

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Valuable information about climate change and global warming.

De la lección

Building Blocks of Earth’s Climate System

Video 1.0: Introduction and Philosophy7:45

Video 1.1: How does science work?6:21

Optional Video: How do scientific papers get published?10:50

Video 1.2: Introduction to the Earth's climate system8:49

Video 1.3: How do we measure geologic time?9:50

Video 1.4: Geological Time Scale Song2:50

Video 1.5: Minerals and Rocks2:59

Video 1.5.1: Igneous Rock3:03

Video 1.5.2: Sedimentary Rock6:15

Video 1.5.3: Metamorphic Rock5:39

Video 1.6: Using radioactivity to date rocks - Dr. Ray Burgess7:48

Video 1.7: Using stable isotopes to understand Earth processes - Dr. Ray Burgess6:15

Video 1.8: How do we know how old the Earth is?5:46

Video 1.9: What are those rocks doing lying around?10:48

Impartido por:

Prof. David M. Schultz
Professor of Synoptic Meteorology
Dr Rochelle Taylor
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Jonathan Fairman
Postdoctoral Research Associate

So, the third type of rock is metamorphic rock.

And as the name metamorphism suggests, this is rock whose

structure has been changed by heating, by pressure in the interior of the Earth,

and then returned to the Earth's surface by dynamic processes.

What do we mean by dynamic processes?

Some kind of mountain building, or uplift,

that has taken this rock from deep below, and brought it back up to the surface.

With metamorphic rocks,

we characterize them by what we call the grade of metamorphism.

Is the rock only slightly modified by heating and pressure?

Or is it deeply modified by heating and pressure, perhaps even so

that it partially starts to melt back to the molten state?

So, when we look at the samples of metamorphic rocks, keep this in mind.

We're going to go through a series of metamorphic rocks,

from lightly metamorphosed,

or what we call low metamorphic grade, to highly metamorphose rocks.

These are rocks that have undergone extreme changes due to heat and pressure.

So what we see here is a suite of metamorphic rocks,

from low grade to high grade.

And remember that as we go to increasing grade, we go to increasing metamorphism,

increasing changes in the rock, due to increasing heat and pressure.

So these rocks maybe started out from a mudstone or

a silk stone, and with a little bit of heat and pressure,

the clay minerals in that mudstone achieved a preferred

orientation and hardened together to form this slate.

This slate is the same kind of material that people used to use as chalkboards.

They could write on it because of the fine plains,

here, where this rock just flakes apart into sheets.

So that's the slate, the lowest grade metamorphic rock.

With increasing heat and pressure, we can change the crystalline

structure of that slate into something where we have

fine-grained mica minerals being formed within here.

And so you can't see them from the naked eye, but

this phyllite has fine grained mica in here that has a preferred orientation.

And you can see some of the orientation of this structure, and

this one here with a little bit more iron, has a preferred structure.

It's got some metamorphism that is gone beyond the slate.

These next two samples here represent shifts.

This is where we start to see the mica crystals in a visible way.

So here we have relatively small mica crystals.

It just gives a little sheen to the rock surface, and

in this case, it's even got some deformation.

You can see the folds here formed as a result

of the bending of these rocks during the metamorphism.

This schist, on the other hand, is much higher grade.

You can see much larger crystals, more specular reflection,

rather than just a sheen.

And these garnet crystals, again,

a signal of very high-grade metamorphism within this schist.

Then the next sample here is a nice.

Again, we can tell that this is a nice because of the large crystals.

So these crystals have undergone extreme changes and,

almost to the point of melting.

You might confuse this with an igneous rock,

except it's got these preferred orientations of the minerals within there,

again indicating the extreme heat and pressure that this rock has undergone.

When you look at this rock here, this a migmatite.

And in this migmatite, there's been melting of this rock.

There's been so much heat and pressure applied to this that it's been melted and

has recrystallized almost as a new rock.

Not quite an igneous rock, but pretty close to it.

So, this is the whole suite then, of metamorphic rocks,

given kind of a parent mud stone or silt stone.

We've got the slate, the low grade end of the metamorphic rocks,

through the phyllites and

the shifts here of varying degrees of metamorphism, to the nice.

And the point where we even start to re-melt this rock almost

to the point of being an igneous rock, but the migmatite being

the highest grade metamorphic rock within this particular suite.

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