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Common Minerals found in New Zealand
Common Minerals
found in NZ
Igneous
Rocks
What are Ingeous Rocks?
Types of Ingeonus Rocks
Basalt
Rhyolite
What are Metamorphic Rocks?
Metamorphic rocks form deep
within the Earth, when heat and
pressure are applied to either
igneous rocks, or sedimentary rocks.
Marble
Slate
Sedimentary
What are Sedimenary Rocks?
Where the igneous rocks are born hot,
sedimentary rocks are born cool at the
Earth's surface, mostly under water. They
usually consist of layers or strata, hence
they are also called stratified rocks
Types of Sedimentary Rocks
Limestone
Metamorphic
Igneous rocks form deep within the Earth’s crust where temperatures
are very high, might take thousands
of years to cool down.
Sandstone
Types of Metamorphic Rocks?
Chemical Propities:
Physical Property:
Rhyolite is a light-colored,
fine-grained
Acid + Basalt
Water + Basalt
Oxygen + Basalt
Physical Property:
Physical Propities:
Basalt is a dark-colored, fine-grained
Uses of Basalt:
- building and landscape constuction
- cement manufacture
Chemical Property:
Acid + Rhyolite
Water + Rhyolite
Oxygen + Rhyolite
Chemical Property:
Acid + Marble will react and sharp
edges and carving details gradually
become rounded
Water + Marble
Oxygen + Marble
Chemical Property:
Acid + Slate
Water + Slate
Oxygen + Slate
Used in
construction
(e.g. as building blocks or
in the groundwork)
Uses for Rhyolite:
It is used a decorative
rock and jewerlly
Uses of Slate
- Roofing Material
Uses of Marble
White marble a use in sculptures
Building Material