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Unformatted text preview: Clay minerals + Iron oxide minerals + stuff in solution o New minerals (mostly clay), stuff in solution How to make a sedimentary rock: • Weathering Erosion Transportation Deposition Lithification • What are the agents between erosion and transportation? o Water o Wind o Glaciers • Deposition has… o Layering • Lithification(2): o Cementation Cement Calcite Quartz • CaCO 3 o Iron oxide Minerals Classification of Sedimentary Rocks: • Detrital/Clastic Sediments/Sedimentary Rocks Sediment Rock • Boulders • Pebbles • Gravel • Sand (mostly quartz) • Conglomerate • Sandstone...
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- Fall '09
- Sedimentary rocks