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Rocks where you have an accumulation of loose sediment
Subject sediment to heat and pressure to form a rock |
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| Sedimentary Rock Classification |
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| Classified by the size of materials or the chemical composition |
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Sandstone
Shale
Conglomerate
Limestone |
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| Created from sand sized particles |
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Very fine grained
Created by clay sized particles |
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| Composed of many different sized particles |
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Calcium Carbonate
Composed of formally living materials
Fossils within limestone |
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| Any chemical, physical, or biological change undergone by a sediment |
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| Process in which sediments compact under pressure, and gradually become solid rock |
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| As sediment accumulates the weight of overlying material compresses the deeper sediments |
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| A diagnetic change that involves the crystallization of minerals among individual sediment grains |
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| Rocks that display discrete fragments and particles that are cemented and compacted together |
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Effects the rate of chemical weathering
The smaller the particle size, the greater the surface area, the faster the wethering |
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| Effects rate of weathering |
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| Degree of similarity in particle size in a sedimentary rock |
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| The degree of sharpness of the corners and edges of a grain |
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Minerals are all about the same size, well rounded and generally one mineral type
Sand at the beach |
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| Minerals are all different sizes and many types |
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| Sediment left over when salt water evaporates |
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Places where sediment accumulates
Continental Environments
Marine Environments
Transitional Environments |
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Strata
Bedding Planes
Cross Bedding
Graded Beds
Ripple Marks
Mud Cracks
Fossils |
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Layers of sediment
Also called beds |
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| The area between separating the strata |
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| Layers within the strata that are inclined to the horizontal |
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| The particles within a single sedimentary layer gradually change from coarse at the bottom to fine at the top |
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| Small waves of sand that develop on the surface of a sediment layer by the action of moving water or air |
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| Indicate that the sediment in which they were formed was alternately wet and dry |
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| The remains or traces of prehistoric life |
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