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| Sedimentary Features: Fossils |
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| Any trace of ancient life |
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| Sedimentary Features: Beds |
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| Layers of rocks, indicates changes in the environment |
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| Sedimentary Features: Nodules |
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| Rounded rocks of DIFFERENT composition than its host rock. Examples: Flint nodules, septarian nodules, pyrite nodules, geodes |
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| Sedimentary Features: Concretion |
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| Rounded rocks of the SAME composition of its host rock. Examples: Barite Rose Concretion |
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-State rock of Oklahoma
-Part of Garber Sandstone
-Quartz sand with barite cement |
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List of Rock Sizes=
-Boulder...Foot
-Cobble
-Pebble...thumb
-Gravel
-Sand...sugar
-Silt
-Clay...flour |
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| Changing of sediment to rock |
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| Type of Lithification: Compaction |
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Weight of overburden compacts sediment
Ex: The leaning tower of pisa |
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| Type of Lithification: Cementation |
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| Water deposits minerals between sediments |
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A) Quartz
B) Calcite
C) Hematite
D) Barite |
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| Location example with POOR lithification |
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1) Detrital= "WORN", accumulation of eroded rocks
Example= Sandstone
2) Chemical= Chemical precipitates
Example: Rock Salt |
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1) Clastic= "BROKEN" make of broken fragments
Example: Sandstone (most are quartz)
2) Nonclastic= "NOT BROKEN" made of interlocking crystals
Example: Rock Salt |
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| Two rocks with clastic textures are... |
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Lignite Coal= composed of plants
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Coquina= Composed of Calcite |
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| How much of the land do sed rocks cover? |
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-3/4th of the lands surface
-99% of them are the "Big 3" |
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#1= Shale (50%) -_-_-_-_-_ (forms slope)
#2= Sandstone (+25%) :.:.:.:.: (forms cliff)
#3= Limestone (-25%) |_|-|_|- |
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Appearance of sedimentary rocks and change with distance
Under sea to sea level:
Lime mud to mud to sand |
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-Made of granite
-Was almost made of limestone
-Paid for with 3 million aces of land
-That land became the XIT ranch |
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