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Study guide
Chapter
6.
Sedimentary
rocks
1. What does sedimentary mean?
How much of the earth Earth is covered with sedimentary rocks?
2. List and characterize the
four important steps of forming sedimentary rocks.
3. Characterize physical and
chemical weathering
4. Characterize the
Transportation of the sediment
understand sorting,
shape of sedimentary fragments
5. What is accumulation?
6. Explain the two major
process of the diagenesis (know the different cement materials.)
8. Be able to explain the
following terms:
stratification
strata, or
bed
bedding
plane
ripple marks
cross-bedding
mud-cracks
graded
bedding
fossils
9. Classification of
sedimentary rocks
10. Conglomerate, breccia
11. Sandstone, sorting, shape,
different sandstones. Why Q-sandstone is important?
12. Shale, silt
13. What happens with shale
during lithification, why it is impermeable?
14. Usage of shale
15. Limestone, mineral
composition, forming environment, different types of limestone
16. Dolomite, mineral
composition, formation of dolomite
17. Chert different colors,
formation of chert
18. Evaporites they classified
based on what property; precipitation order, forming environments
19. Coal. How does coal form,
in what environment?
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