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Ancient ripple marks preserved on a bedding surface of a sandstone in the Dakota Formation (Cretaceous) at Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado. Photo by Vince Cronin.

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Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks

Reading

Read and study chapter 7

Notes and Handouts

Notes: SedRox-MainPoints.pdf (pdf file, ~39 KB)

Decision tree for identifying sedimentary rocks: http://croninprojects.org/Vince/PhysGeoLab/SedRox-Table-V5.1.pdf (pdf file, 648 KB)

Presentation file

CroninProjects.org/Vince/Course/PhysGeol/1405SedRox-words.pdf (8.1 MB)

Smart Figures

7.2 — The big picture: https://goo.gl/2296bj

7.7 — Sorting and particle shape: https://goo.gl/hcKMT3

7.19 — Bonneville Salt Flats: https://goo.gl/mhgwN3

7.20 — From plants to coal: https://goo.gl/EHKyKU

7.24 — Utah's Capitol Reef National Park: https://goo.gl/eeryMM

7.26 — Lateral change: https://goo.gl/HOJsQ8

Vocabulary to learn

Consult your textbook or lecture notes for definitions. Remember that the best general source of definitions in geology is the AGI Glossary of Geology.

agate	alabaster	anthracite coal	aqueous solution	arenite
argillaceous limestone	argillaceous sandstone	argillite	arkose	arkosic sandstone
asymmetric ripple mark	bed	bedding surface	bioclast	bioclastic sediment
biotite	bituminous coal	boulder	breccia	calcite
carbonate mineral/sediment/rock	cementation	chalk	chemical weathering	chert
clast	clastic sediment/rock	clastic texture	clay (grain-size class)	clay (mineral family)
claystone	coal	coarse-grained	cobble	compaction
conglomerate	coquina	coralline limestone	crinoidal limestone	cross beds
deposition (of sediment)	diagenesis or diagenetic change	diatom	dolomite (mineral)	dolostone
dune	erosion	evaporite	feldspar	fine-grained
fissility or fissile	foreset bed	fossiliferous limestone	fossiliferous sandstone	geyserite
granular sandstone	granule	gravel	groundmass	heavy mineral
ignimbrite	intergrown crystals	ion	kerogen	lahar
lamina (plural is laminae)	lee slope	lignite or lignite coal	limestone	limestone breccia
lithic sandstone	lithify	loess	mafic mineral	matrix
micrite	microcrystalline limestone	muddy limestone	muddy sandstone	mudstone
onyx	ooid	oolitic limestone	opal	oxidation
peat	pebble	pebbly sandstone	peloid	pisolite
playa lake	poorly sorted	principle of uniformitarianism	pyroclastic flow	pyroclastic sediment/rock
quartz	quartz sandstone	radiolaria	ripple mark	rock fragment
rock gypsum	rock salt	rudite	sand	sandstone
sediment	sedimentary rock	shale	siliceous sinter	siliciclastic sediment/rock
silt	siltstone	source area	stoss slope	sub-bitunimous coal
symmetric ripple mark	tephra	transformation	travertine	tufa
volcaniclastic sediment/rock	weathering	well sorted	windward slope	--

Study Questions

Note that any of the vocabulary words listed above is "fair game" for a question on any quiz that includes this material.

Sedimentary rocks study questions: SedRox-Questions.html (web page)

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