4 Main Types of Sediment
This sediment originates from living organisms (shells, skeletal structures, waste, coral pieces, chert, etc)
What is Biogenous sediment?
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What is Ooze?
This process breaks up rocks.
What is weathering?
This size of particle is commonly found at the beach.
What is sand?
This material is mostly inorganic, derived from land masses and collects in huge sequences along edges of continents.
(example - mud flowing from a river)
What is Terrigenous Sediment?
Studying these layers can help tell is about environment, climate, life, and productivity of different eras in earth's history
Strata (Stratigraphy is the study of the strata)
Fossils help identify the ages of each layer
Moving materials due to wind, water or ice
What is transportation?
The biggest particle size of rock.
What is a Boulder?
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What is Sat, Sept 3rd?
This very common sedimentary rock is formed by the compressing and heating of shale.
What is Slate?
What is 3.2?
This is the size between a boulder and a pebble.
What is a Cobble?
Forms 'in place' and appears right out of the water due to change in temperatures and pressures.
Example - an evaporated lake leaving behind salt flats
What is Hydrogenous Sediment?
What is Marble?
This process lays down sediment.
What is deposition?
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What is GLAMOROUS by Fergie?
Kryptonite, the rock that weakens Superman, originates from the planet Krypton and is therefore this type of Sediment.
What is Cosmogenous Sediment?
Multiple Choice:
The smallest sediment grains are found
a)On The Beach
b) In The Waves
c) Shallow Water
d)Deep Ocean Water
What is (D) Deep Ocean Water?
Over time, this is the process of particles becoming buried and compacted which makes rock.
What is lithification?
Silt and Clay often combine to form this.
What is mud?