Identifying Igneous Rocks -- Earth Rocks!

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • For an introductory college-level physical geology class: a review of how to classify and identify an igneous rock. Includes a discussion of the compositions ultramafic, mafic, intermediate, and felsic; and the textures phaneritic, aphanitic, glassy, frothy, pyroclastic; also reviews the naming process for porphyries and pegmatites, including identifying and naming the phenocrysts (and sorting out all these different terms!). Covers the following rocks: peridotite, gabbro, diorite, granite, basalt, andesite, rhyolite, obsidian, scoria, pumice, and volcanic tuff.
    **This video comes near the middle of the semester, so there may be terms with which the audience is unfamiliar. For a full playlist, refer to the Geology playlists on the Earth Rocks! RUclips Channel.
    Content within this video is based on information available in any standard introductory college geology textbook (or lab manual), such as Essentials of Geology -- Tarbuck and Lutgens -- Pearson Publishing.
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Комментарии • 140

  • @mwilson14
    @mwilson14 4 года назад +40

    This is one of those RUclips videos I need to watch repeatedly to better understand the minerals I often misidentify.

    • @arlenestanton9955
      @arlenestanton9955 3 месяца назад

      It’s a lot to remember, and you have to practices,by go out a lot! Not just walking in the woods, but stopping to pick up rocks and trying to ID them.

  • @brento2890
    @brento2890 8 лет назад +37

    Excellent explanation. Best video I have seen on RUclips so far. I've only studied geology as a hobby (for about ten years). Although I have a degree in biochemistry, now I'm going to take a geology class at a local community college. Thank you! Keep putting inspirational videos online!!!

  • @nancypatino7739
    @nancypatino7739 7 лет назад +22

    Excellent explanation.
    Your voice and the pictures are the perfect mix to learn

  • @Nothingimportant1
    @Nothingimportant1 Год назад +1

    After six years again a geology class, who knew it comes back to me. I loved rocks and minerals, but the college, prof we studies, led us to abhor it even. Now, understanding English and having access to RUclips, makes me interested again. Thank you for such a great video.

  • @nunyabiznes4471
    @nunyabiznes4471 2 года назад +2

    This was excellent. I took a geology class in college, and I love rocks, minerals and fossils. I’m still confused on a lot of it, and this video certainly helped mitigate the confusion of where, how processes occur to result in which deposits. Thank you for an outstanding presentation without unnecessary words.

  • @elathiaskade7311
    @elathiaskade7311 7 лет назад +6

    19:14 That is a quality visual arrangement, very logically organized. I really appreciate it. Production quality is pretty nice, like that well-done cut to show the floating Pumice chunk in a bucket.

  • @prestongallimore
    @prestongallimore 8 лет назад +26

    I'm going to live in the woods so i need to learn this

    • @joanofarkhuakau4154
      @joanofarkhuakau4154 3 года назад

      You still in the woods

    • @FilhoDoFogoEterno
      @FilhoDoFogoEterno 3 года назад

      i am from brazil, good luck. are you alive? lol kkkkkkkk

    • @lindadechiazza2924
      @lindadechiazza2924 2 года назад

      I think you are planning to live in a rock quarry not, not among trees in a forest...please dress accordingly

  • @MooMooMath
    @MooMooMath 5 лет назад +5

    Great video. I can appreciate the research and work you guys put into this video.

  • @ianhubbard4954
    @ianhubbard4954 5 лет назад +3

    I only just became interested in rocks. I bought a few now that don't originally come from England. I just find interesting to wonder how many millions of years old it is and all the what ifs. Thanks for the video I'm hoping when I learn the basics the video will be a huge resource

  • @bingluo7503
    @bingluo7503 2 года назад +1

    The video is more better than some textbooks. It's helpful!

  • @marcgradycole3523
    @marcgradycole3523 Год назад

    Thank you, for this and your tremendous series of videos/lessons. I only wished my geology professor's lessons were half as effective as yours. Your students are lucky to have such a talented professor like you.

  • @Hartcore11
    @Hartcore11 4 года назад

    This video is helps greatly in understanding what I'm seeing in my river trips in the mountains.

  • @bigboizism
    @bigboizism 8 лет назад +26

    Skip classes, watch a 15 min RUclips video once a week, get a 90 in the course ah

    • @shandevin5417
      @shandevin5417 6 лет назад +5

      pretty easy to do when taking these easy ass general ed classes. static engineering and calculus 3 on the other hand is more like go to class and come home and study 4 hours after every day to get a b or c

    • @gregglira9947
      @gregglira9947 5 лет назад +1

      @@shandevin5417 Geology is not a general ed class, and the advance geology courses can get harder like math or any other science!

  • @kaeligrace
    @kaeligrace Год назад

    Thank you for this! My geology class is so interesting but so fast paced that it’s hard to learn and appreciate anything before a new subject starts. This was explained in such a clear way and I feel much less stress about my upcoming tests!

    • @EarthRocks
      @EarthRocks  Год назад +1

      Terrific! Thanks for sharing that. :)

  • @alvaromorales6828
    @alvaromorales6828 8 лет назад +4

    Good explanatory , keep doing these practical videos.

  • @colette8507
    @colette8507 6 лет назад +3

    Pretty Good Diet Granola BAR (no matter how bad a mnemonic you think it may be) is probably going to save me in my Geology prac exam for uni tomorrow. Thank you so much

  • @anastaziuscyriacus5415
    @anastaziuscyriacus5415 8 лет назад +2

    this video helped me a lot with my Earth material UE exam, God bless you

  • @Yooitsblake
    @Yooitsblake 5 лет назад +1

    This woman helped so much. Great video and explanations. you deserve a million views.

  • @jant232000
    @jant232000 7 лет назад

    THANK YOU!!! I have been so frustrated with my geology class. This will save my butt for midterms

  • @StereoSpace
    @StereoSpace 8 лет назад +4

    Awesome explanatory video. Thank you.

  • @theultimategamer384
    @theultimategamer384 9 лет назад +4

    I have science test tomorrow 😥and this made me confident and ready for the test😌thnx :) 😘😘

  • @ErrolMiller-ey3lb
    @ErrolMiller-ey3lb 10 месяцев назад

    EXCELLENT PRESENTATION. INFORMATION CLEAR. THANKS.

  • @eliphillips2475
    @eliphillips2475 9 лет назад +33

    best explanation of bowens reaction series better than my instructor

  • @reneespiricueta3543
    @reneespiricueta3543 2 года назад

    Great information. Easy to understand thank you for sharing this information

  • @kryztyn127
    @kryztyn127 7 лет назад +1

    Thanks! This helped on my granite/ diorite problem

  • @dipendraadhikari3710
    @dipendraadhikari3710 7 лет назад +1

    Excellent explation and visualization...as i am the student of Geology from Tribhuvan University ( Nepal)

  • @allisonfu9503
    @allisonfu9503 6 лет назад +5

    Pretty Good Diet Granola BAR, hope it will help me with the Geology lab test!!!!!

  • @jeromejeitany3277
    @jeromejeitany3277 4 года назад

    Amazing !!! informative,blunt,logical!

  • @qpuej
    @qpuej 8 лет назад

    best explanation so far!! greets from the world

  • @emmanuelagustusmondilla6468
    @emmanuelagustusmondilla6468 4 года назад +1

    Thank you!! I wish you're my teacher in Petrology.

  • @radekgalabov9638
    @radekgalabov9638 4 года назад +1

    This was SO helpful! Thank you!

  • @wouldhave4998
    @wouldhave4998 6 лет назад +3

    Now i can play Dwarf Fortress with some nerdy background info!

  • @sunilkumar-nj4zt
    @sunilkumar-nj4zt Год назад

    Crystal clear .

  • @nicolabrailsford8361
    @nicolabrailsford8361 2 года назад

    This video was very helpful as iam trying to learn all about rocks& minerals

  • @sarielizard1
    @sarielizard1 9 лет назад +6

    god bless you!!! so much awesome!!!

  • @petertolibas648
    @petertolibas648 8 лет назад +2

    Thank you very much Earth Rocks, I'll come back if I ace my exam :D

  • @asifmehsud7018
    @asifmehsud7018 7 лет назад

    wow. Amazing explanation . i was never expecting that I will learn about igneous rock so easy as I do through this video.

  • @haseo8244
    @haseo8244 8 лет назад

    That's why mt st. Helen had a lot of ash high silica content while Hawaii is basically based on basalt.

  • @DineshSingh-hk3te
    @DineshSingh-hk3te 2 года назад

    Very good presentation

  • @abdirahmansaid6392
    @abdirahmansaid6392 2 года назад

    We like how u decribe this lesson thanks

  • @terrisweet4632
    @terrisweet4632 3 года назад

    Wow, this is the best video ever! 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

  • @kamaldeshmukh66
    @kamaldeshmukh66 7 лет назад +1

    really a good explanation..helped me alot in knowing some of the basic concepts of geology.

  • @Saint.questions
    @Saint.questions 6 месяцев назад

    This is my class! :)

  • @lowcyzlota
    @lowcyzlota 7 лет назад

    The best explanation ever!

  • @surajpatel3044
    @surajpatel3044 3 года назад

    Thank you so much ma'am for this ultra helpful video👏👏👏🙇🙇

  • @pratyakshya.psahoo1611
    @pratyakshya.psahoo1611 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks for this video..☺

  • @007shubhs7
    @007shubhs7 7 лет назад

    very awesome your voice and your bowmen series

  • @teneoaristocrata3270
    @teneoaristocrata3270 2 года назад

    Very helpful. Than you so much!

  • @hamedsafari8534
    @hamedsafari8534 Месяц назад

    Finally I understood 🎉

  • @jeffreyallen3796
    @jeffreyallen3796 6 лет назад +1

    Thank you!!

  • @nadiasourez8560
    @nadiasourez8560 2 года назад

    Hi, thank you.well done

  • @GeologiadaTerra
    @GeologiadaTerra 4 года назад

    such a great video! thanks!

  • @salmanshai9150
    @salmanshai9150 5 лет назад

    Excellent!

  • @AthensGreec
    @AthensGreec 4 года назад

    Thank you so much for this video!! It was really helpful!

  • @rhadicalmaindz
    @rhadicalmaindz 6 лет назад

    Awesome work.

  • @stephenfennell
    @stephenfennell 6 лет назад +1

    Could you do the same video again but with several seconds pause after each sentence to give us time to digest what you've just said? The talk is good but every sentence contains so many facts (all of them new to me) that I cannot absorb them before you're onto the next sentence and more facts. I need time to look at the picture and think what you've said, so the facts can crystallise in my brain, like magma cooling nice and slowly underground into large crystals. Thank you!

    • @katrynwiese190
      @katrynwiese190 6 лет назад

      Thanks for the feedback. Everyone processes information at different speeds, so thank goodness for video that you can pause and rewind!! That's the best I can do. I totally agree that it's great to look at the picture and think about what I've said. But my videos are designed to pack in a lot and depend on the pause and rewind button to accommodate time to think. It would be WAY too long a video otherwise. Still a great idea!!! :)

  • @pratibha2125
    @pratibha2125 5 лет назад

    Good best explained from everyone

  • @ckmo8542
    @ckmo8542 5 лет назад +1

    this is an amazing lecture, it;s so helpful for me!

  • @angelic2234
    @angelic2234 9 лет назад

    Brilliant, thank you!

  • @joaoaox5485
    @joaoaox5485 7 лет назад

    very good, thanks

  • @haseo8244
    @haseo8244 8 лет назад

    Large crystals can be granite. Small crystals are basalt and rhyolite. But rhyolite are not the easiest to Id.

  • @HoboMinerals
    @HoboMinerals 2 года назад

    So, how large is unusually large for the crystals to be?

  • @sarahr.6520
    @sarahr.6520 3 года назад +1

    I figured out a mnemonic you can use, i just invented from watching this video;
    'Please Go Dumbledore, Go Back And Read'
    Hope it can help :)

  • @thegodofwar3756
    @thegodofwar3756 4 года назад

    Loved it really

  • @dominickrusso99
    @dominickrusso99 3 года назад

    Good job I like a couple bars 👍

  • @rastkoglisic4358
    @rastkoglisic4358 Год назад

    What would happen if during the magma 's cooling and travel, the starting minerals are not removed?

    • @EarthRocks
      @EarthRocks  Год назад

      Then it would produce an ultramafic/mafic intrusive (peridotite/gabbro). Likely the minerals would all be zoned, with rims of a more evolved composition than the cores. For example, the plagioclase crystals would be zoned, with calcium-rich centers and more sodic rich as you move away from the cores.

  • @jemalsd8877
    @jemalsd8877 8 лет назад

    Thank you so much

  • @ismaleali6076
    @ismaleali6076 Год назад

    No words exdpres for some one updating my proffishional carrier.G.I.Ali

  • @SkalaMustafa
    @SkalaMustafa 10 лет назад

    Very organized (Y) informtive

  • @davidbrehmer2596
    @davidbrehmer2596 2 года назад

    I can't tell the difference between the aphanitic with crystals embedded in the matrix and the typical phaneritic specimens.

    • @EarthRocks
      @EarthRocks  2 года назад +1

      *Aphanitic with crystals embedded in a matrix = the porphyritic variety of aphanitic. The crystals you can see are called phenocrysts, and typically they will have perfect shapes/edges as they were carried by the erupting magma to the surface and then the lava solidified around them.
      *Phaneritic = 100% intergrown visible crystals. Typically the crystals will be similarly sized and intergrown.
      It can sometimes be hard to tell if there are a LOT of phenocrysts in your aphanitic rock (like a hearty stew). Looking through a handless or a thin section of the rock will help.

    • @davidbrehmer2596
      @davidbrehmer2596 2 года назад

      @@EarthRocks Thanks. It's probably easier to tell in person.

  • @mikestevens8012
    @mikestevens8012 5 лет назад

    I like your precision's. 4000 ,new semi earth like planets found ( numbers vary ) . I like rare metiorites , I think we over looked the nature of 2-3% of metiorite samples . Fusion crusts , to compare an contrast , chondrules , " thumbprints" specific minerals and combos ...I need field tests and can you recommend , or make , a resource.?.

  • @fortheearth
    @fortheearth 5 лет назад

    Wonderful video! Thanks for sharing.

  • @meilani-2163
    @meilani-2163 2 года назад

    COOL!

  • @jannalreybalondo7555
    @jannalreybalondo7555 4 года назад

    I have aphanitic granite 12 to 15kls.

  • @haseo8244
    @haseo8244 8 лет назад

    Another clue is if a rock is unusually heavy it have high metal contents.

  • @BeautifulVolcanoEruptions
    @BeautifulVolcanoEruptions 3 года назад

    I need your help! I am watching the volcano in Iceland and I am seeing so very strange colored lava! The color runs thru the lava so is not a reflection. I have seen pink, blue, white, green, yellow, red, silver and PURPLE lava from this volcano. I very much would love to know what the compositions would be? I am not seeing these colors covered in your video. I read that this volcano is changing from Mafic to Tholeiitic flow from the Moho region of the mantle? I sure could use your expertise. I have been researching for weeks and no one knows the answer. I have photos I could share with you. Thank you so very much! I understand the yellow lava could be Hornblende? and maybe Feldspar Rhyolite for the pink? Maybe Titanium for the white lava? No matter what I cant find a single chart that talks about Purple, blue and silver lava!! Helllllp! Can a volcano go back and forth from being Mafic to Tholeiitic? If I understand your video the colors depend on the type of lava flow it is?

    • @lindadechiazza2924
      @lindadechiazza2924 2 года назад

      Kimberly i am fascinated by Indonesia Ijen volcano witn blueish gas lava and as you know Aurora borealis different colors are maybe account of the various elements composition so you are on to something. . ..

  • @sophie20001
    @sophie20001 6 лет назад

    great!

  • @mineralstones5161
    @mineralstones5161 3 года назад

    what about kimberlite

  • @roniidica8482
    @roniidica8482 4 года назад

    Thanks...

  • @jaczad6329
    @jaczad6329 7 лет назад

    hi, just found a hard round greyish rock covered with somehow looks like rusted rock.I really want to know what this is, please comment if you know. thanks

    • @EarthRocks
      @EarthRocks  7 лет назад +2

      I'm pretty good at rock ID, but usually at least with a picture! ;)
      The round nature of the rock just means it was eroded by rolling around in water (waves or river).
      Hard and grey could be a sedimentary rock, like mudstone, or a volcanic rock, like andesite.
      The rusty edge is probably just that, rusted out surface where chemical weathering has left rust deposits on the surface probably from reactions with iron in the rock.
      Attach a good picture, I can do a bit better!

  • @mineralstones5161
    @mineralstones5161 3 года назад

    why you dont tall about daimonds ?

  • @nhlakaniphosikhosana6927
    @nhlakaniphosikhosana6927 5 лет назад

    Thank you! I benefited a lot from this video. I thank God for letting me find and watch this video,without Him I probably would not have found it and don't know what I would do.
    God bless this channel and the videos you make. May you carry on to help many through these videos and more initiatives that this organisation is involved in. May the Lord, Jesus help you and reveal Himself to you and may God, our Father, give you His Spirit; and may His Spirit lead you in His ways. Amen.

  • @edthoreum7625
    @edthoreum7625 5 лет назад +1

    5:16 chart

  • @nandanajihhabibilafif4631
    @nandanajihhabibilafif4631 9 лет назад

    Gracias

  • @thebestofallworlds187
    @thebestofallworlds187 6 лет назад

    why does water make the viscosity lower? 2:42?

    • @EarthRocks
      @EarthRocks  6 лет назад

      In general, the viscosity of a liquid comes from how much the molecules in the liquid stick to each other. The more they try to bond (like they will fully when solid), the more viscous the liquid. In magmas, more than 50% of the molecules are SiO4(2+) -- silicon-oxygen tetrahedrons. And these like to stick to each other. The higher the % of Silica, the stickier they are. When water gets into the magma, the water molecules surround the silica tetrahedra (attracted to the charges) and interfere with its ability to stick to itself. So the liquid becomes less viscous.
      Same thing with syrup. Sugar molecules like to form weak bonds in the liquid (en route to full bonding when solid), and when you add water, you break some of those bonds. Make sense?

    • @thebestofallworlds187
      @thebestofallworlds187 6 лет назад

      Yeah, that is perfect. thank you for taking the time to describe this.

  • @davidladu7159
    @davidladu7159 9 лет назад

    You are an iron lady! Thank you very much :)

  • @geoffgeoff143
    @geoffgeoff143 3 года назад

    Simply define texture and composition.

  • @JoseLuna-iu6jw
    @JoseLuna-iu6jw 2 года назад

    I have a ultramafic rock dark green white black rock

  • @michiganmitten1147
    @michiganmitten1147 5 лет назад

    Forgot about porphyry rocks

  • @warriorwoman1719
    @warriorwoman1719 6 лет назад

    This is great. Thank you for posting!!!

  • @ananyabanerjee5814
    @ananyabanerjee5814 7 лет назад

    This is awsm

  • @ant5908
    @ant5908 6 лет назад

    Ty

  • @FurryCombatWombat
    @FurryCombatWombat 4 года назад

    Who else is here cramming before Science Bowl?

  • @haseo8244
    @haseo8244 8 лет назад

    Hmmm remember that tuff can also be pumice.

    • @KatrynWiese
      @KatrynWiese 8 лет назад +1

      Tuff can contain pumice, but it can't "be" pumice.

  • @abdourahamaneguisse7864
    @abdourahamaneguisse7864 7 лет назад

    fantastic

  • @gshepherd6141
    @gshepherd6141 23 часа назад

    Lava above ground, magma below ground.

  • @clairekarin9668
    @clairekarin9668 7 лет назад

    godbless you madam

  • @pure4dsr817
    @pure4dsr817 6 лет назад +1

    Who wants the Job to-put-
    it together

  • @melanie19524
    @melanie19524 4 года назад +1

    13:23

  • @caskamohamed1510
    @caskamohamed1510 7 лет назад

    Well explanation same times I can say better lecture