Your instructor will furnish you
with a number of specimens of metamorphic rocks. You may be given more
than one example of a specific rock. Use the information given in the laboratory
lecture as well as the textbook references to help you identify these specimens.
It will help if you first record the data asked for in the following table
to each specimen before attempting to assign a name. Use a microscope or
hand lens to aid in identifying the minerals present.
Yes or
No
Quartz,
clay, mica, calcite, etc.
quartz
/ muscovite / biotite / hornblende / garnet, etc.