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GEOL 1307 Physical Geology Exercise #6 Sedimentary Rocks.

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1 GEOL 1307 Physical Geology Exercise #6 Sedimentary Rocks

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3 Sedimentation Sediment Formation Mechanical and Chemical Weathering Sediment Transport Water, Ice, Wind and Gravity Sediment Deposition Environment of Deposition

4 Non-marine Terrigenous Lacustrine Marine Littoral Pelagic Transitional

5 Clastic Sedimentary Rocks Sorting Grain Size Boulders Pebbles Sand Silt Clay Rounding

6 Classification by Grain Size Unsorted Conglomerate Breccia Sorted Quartz Sandstone Arkose Graywacke Siltstone Shale

7 BioClastic Sedimentary Rocks Micritic Limestone Pelletal Limestone Oolitic Limestone Chalk Fossiliferous Limestone Coquina

8 Chemical Sedimentary Rocks Precipitates Limestone Dolomite Travertine Chert Evaporites Gypsum Halite

9 Other Compositions Siliceous Sedimentary Rocks Dolomite Coal

10 Sedimentary Structures Cross-Stratification Graded Bedding Ripple-Marks Mud Cracks

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