This document provides an overview of petrology, the scientific study of rocks. It defines different types of rocks, including igneous rocks formed by cooling magma, sedimentary rocks formed from compacted sediments, and metamorphic rocks formed by changes to existing rocks through heat, pressure, and chemical processes. It describes key concepts such as crystallization, dykes and sills which are rock intrusions, and the textures and structures of different rock types that provide clues to their formation histories. The document emphasizes that rocks have been essential to human civilization and the development of tools and materials throughout history.
2. Definition of rock:
• In geology, rock is a naturally occurring
solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.
• For example, the common rock granite is a combination
of the quartz, feldspar and biotite minerals. The Earth's
outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock.
3. • Rocks have been used by mankind throughout history.
From the Stone Age, rocks have been used for tools.
The minerals and metals found in rocks have been
essential to human civilization.
• Three major groups of rocks are
defined: Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic. The
scientific study of rocks is called petrology.
10. Structure and texture of Sedimenatry rocks:
• The relationship between rock structure and texture and rock
genesis is more pronounced insedimentary rocks than in igneous
rocks.
• Clastic rocks consist of detrital (clastic) grains of various sizes and
shapes.
• The grains, which canbe angular, subrounded, or rounded, sometim
es lie freely without attachment.
• The structure of clastic rock, which depends on the mutual arrangem
ent of the grains, can be random, laminar, or fluidal. With a random
structure, the particles do not have an ordered arrangement.
11. Texture and structure of metamorphic rocks:
• The structures and textures of metamorphic rocks arise d
uring the recrystallization in thesolid state of primary sedi
mentary and magmatic rocks.
• The recrystallization occurs under the action of lithostatic
pressure, temperature.
• Which leads to an ordered arrangement of the mineral
Grains.