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Let's Rock - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Slate
        
        Glass
        
        Marble
        
        Fireplaces/countertops
        
        Silca
        
        Computers
        
        Iron Ore
        
        Steel pipes/pots/pans
        
        Silca/Sand/Quartz
        
        Windows
        
        Roof slate
      - Clay/Limestone
        
        Building houses
  - - - Shaft Mining
        
        Process: Coal and Metal Ores Extraction
        
        Environmental impact: Dust causes health problems
        
        Economic impact: : The Tara Lead and Zinc Mines support 730 jobs. Company pays 38 million in tax
      - Process: Stone, Sand and Gravel Extraction
        
        Environmental impact: Dust causes air pollution, and very noisy
        
        Economic impact: provide employment to locals and supply materials for building industry
        
        Carrigtwohill Case Study
    - - Environmental impact: Oil spills-destroy plant and animal life
        
        Economic impact: Corrib Oil and Gas Field 4.3 billion investment /provide 60% of Irelands gas needs and supply fuel for 20yrs
  - - - Newspaper article about discovery of gold
- - - - Intrusive
        
        Mourne Mtns
        
        Colours: pink and grey
        
        Granites usually have a coarse texture because the magma cools slowly underground, allowing larger crystal growth.
    - - Extrusive
        
        Giants Causeway
        
        Colour: Black to grey
        
        As lava cools to form basalt, it may crack in a hexagonal shape and form columns.
    - - Active learning methodology to demonstrate the process-Light a candle and when you blow it out pour the wax onto a cool surface and it will solidify
  - - - Sand deposits compressed and cemented
        
        Colour: Brown-Red
        
        Like sandpaper, sandstones usually have a rough, granular texture=weakest
      - Macgillycuddy Reeks, Co.Kerry
    - - Dead sea creatures, shells, fish pile up and are compressed and cemented
        
        Grey colour
        
        soft rock and is easily scratched
      - Burren Co.Clare
    - - https://youtu.be/Vp_S3BDiR-I
  - - - Limestone under heat & pressure
        
        Colour: Pure Marble is white
        
        Feels colder than the other surfaces because it cools faster
      - White-Rathlin Island, Green-Connemara, Red-Cork, Black-Kilkennny
    - - Sandstone under heat & pressure
        
        Pure Quartzite is white-grey in colour
        
        Extremely hard in texture