Sedimentary Rocks and Stratigraphy
Another word for differential uplift
What is tilt
The two types of sediment
What are terrigenous and (Bio)chemical sediments
The breakdown of rock at the Earth's surface
What is weathering
What are striations
The geological eon representing 540 million years ago to present day
What is the Phanerozoic
The most common sedimentary rock on Earth
What is shale
What is gravel
Feldspar decays to this mineral group through chemical weathering
What are clay minerals
The ice sheet prominent in North America during the LGM
What is the Laurentide Ice Sheet
Important group of fossils that are used in correlating two or more rock layers.
What are index fossils
What are carbonate rocks.
This geologic process leads to the settling of sediment and eventual burial and lithification.
What is deposition
Root wedging is a type of ______
What is (bio)mechanical weathering
Life that existed during a particular interval of earth's history is _____ for that time interval
What is Unique
All terrigenous sedimentary rocks have this TEXTURE
What is clastic texture
The difference between calcite and aragonite
What is crystalline structure
What is hydrolysis
Tube-shaped features deposited within a glacier's plumbing system
What are eskers
The principal that states fossils in the sedimentary record appear in a predictable, definite succession through Earth's history
What is the principal of faunal succession
What is quartz. It is the dominant mineral in sandstone because quartz is the most stable at the surface.
The movement and transport of sediment through wind and water cause sediment to become.....
What is sorted
Carbonate Rocks chemically weather through this process
What is carbonation
Name two geographic locations where we find terminal moraines in New England area
Where is; Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod, Block Island, Long Island
The composite pile of rock layers that we base the geologic time scale upon
What is the geologic column