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Sedimentary Rocks Classification and Characteristics

Learn about the classification and characteristics of clastic sedimentary rocks, grain size, limestone, shale, stratification, and more.

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Sedimentary Rocks Classification and Characteristics

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  1. Sed. Igneous Met. Reference Table Misc. 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

  2. What do you use to classify clastic sedimentary rocks?

  3. What is grain size.

  4. Which sedimentary rock can be formed both bioclastically and chemically?

  5. What is limestone.

  6. Which sedimentary rock is made of the smallest grain size?

  7. What is shale.

  8. What sedimentary characteristic is the name for layers of sediment?

  9. What is stratification.

  10. Which sedimentary rock is also considered to be monominerallic?

  11. What is halite. (rock gypsum and limestone also count as correct).

  12. What two words tell how igneous rocks form?

  13. What are melting and solidification.

  14. What is the synonym for intrusive?

  15. What is plutonic.

  16. What mineral is only found in felsic igneous rocks?

  17. What is Potassium Feldspar

  18. What is the word meaning gas pockets in an igneous rock?

  19. What is vesicular.

  20. What igneous rock makes up the continental crust?

  21. What is granite.

  22. What is the word meaning mineral alignment?

  23. What is foliation.

  24. What is the word meaning metamorphism without true melting.

  25. What is recrystallization.

  26. What are the two types of metamorphism?

  27. What are regional and contact.

  28. What metamorphic rock bubbles in the presence of Hydrochloric Acid?

  29. What is marble.

  30. Which metamorphic rock came from a sedimentary rock that had the largest range of grain sizes?

  31. What is metaconglomerate.

  32. Name a sedimentary rock with a grain size of .0008 cm.

  33. What is siltstone.

  34. What is the metamorphic rock that best shows banding?

  35. What is gneiss.

  36. Name the coarse grained igneous rock rich in pyroxene.

  37. What is gabbro.

  38. Name a sedimentary rock formed from the precipitation of dolomite.

  39. What is dolostone.

  40. What two elements are mafic igneous rocks rich in?

  41. What are Iron and Magnesium.

  42. What are the buzz words for sedimentary rocks?

  43. What are compaction and cementation.

  44. What is the texture of obsidian?

  45. What is glassy?

  46. What do all rocks have in common?

  47. What is made of minerals.

  48. Which type of rock normally has fossils in it?

  49. What is sedimentary.

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