Rockkks
Aren't
They
Super
Gneiss
100
>2mm
What is gravel grain size?
100
The ways biochemicals form.
What is the carbonate factory, the evaporite factory, the bioelemental factory?
100
Sediments of biochemical rocks.
What are biofragments, precipitates, peloids?
100
BIFs
What are banded iron formations?
100
2 faces of aeolian dunes?
What are the windward and leeward faces?
200
Rock made up of biogenetic skeletal components.
What is a carbonate?
200
Siliclastic fossils- hardens from sponges.
What is chert?
200
Fill in cavity with mineral
What is permineralization?
200
Footprints, burrows, tracks
What are trace fossils?
200
Beform created by lots of sediment supply and high currents that erode into preformed bed while simultaneous depositions.
What are climbing ripples?
300
Sandstone with silt and clay.
What is wacke?
300
Subaqueous, subaerial, subglacial.
What are three types of beds?
300
Area where asymmetrical ripples would form.
What are sand dunes/tidal?
300
Feces and grains?
What are peloids?
300
The three types of plastic deformations.
What are flame structures, convolute laminations, slump folds?
400
Components in their orignal positions.
What is boundstone?
400
Where breccias would be deposited.
What are fault planes?
400
Environment where sandstone would be deposited.
What are beaches?
400
Movement of medium grain sediment. Hops and jumps, unidirectional with laminar flow.
What is saltation?
400
Stacking/organization of grains within a sedimentary deposit.
What are sedimentary structures?
500
Micrite supported, >10% grains.
What is wackestone?
500
Micrite-supported, >10% grains, grains >2mm
What is floatstone?
500
Contains micrite, but is grain-supported.
What is packestone?
500
Lack micrite, grain-supported.
What is grainstone?
500
could contains micrite, large grains, grain-supported?
What is rudstone?
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