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Sedimentary Rock Identification Guide

The document describes an identification activity where students are asked to identify sedimentary rock samples based on images and provide each sample's name, composition, origin (chemical, clastic, or organic) and typical grain size. Ten samples are described that include shale, siltstone, coquina, breccia, glauconitic sandstone, graywacke, rock salt, coal, conglomerate, and chert. Students are instructed to be lenient for sample 4 which could be identified as either limestone or fossiliferous limestone.

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Sedimentary Rock Identification Guide

The document describes an identification activity where students are asked to identify sedimentary rock samples based on images and provide each sample's name, composition, origin (chemical, clastic, or organic) and typical grain size. Ten samples are described that include shale, siltstone, coquina, breccia, glauconitic sandstone, graywacke, rock salt, coal, conglomerate, and chert. Students are instructed to be lenient for sample 4 which could be identified as either limestone or fossiliferous limestone.

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Identification Activity

Based on the image, please identify the sedimentary rock correctly and list its attributes.
*Answers with the value N/A have no specific answer so please be lenient in accepting answers.
Also, based on image alone, the value for sample 4 could be both limestone and fossiliferous
limestone, so it is best to accept both

Image Rock Name: Composition: Chemical/ Grain size:


Clastic/Organic
Sample [Link] Very fine-
1 3d-models/sr-36- Shale Clay minerals Clastic grained clay
5d9d7e481c894d549a0 Quartz size
e41cb8f57a06f Micas (<1/256 mm)

Sample [Link] Clay minerals fine-grained


2 3d-models/ss-12- Siltstone Feldspar Clastic silt size
41843958b3bc4202aecf Quartz (1/16 to
dad18c25d7eb Micas 1/256 mm)

Sample [Link] Coarse-


3 3d-models/sr-37- Coquina Calcite, Shell Non-clastic grained
7e4a0b7a84684fbea00a (Variety of fragments (Biochemical) (2 mm)
8dd904aba24e Limestone)

Sample
4 Angular
fragments of Coarse-
Breccia rocks (Gravel) Clastic grained
cemented by Gravel size
calcite, silica (>2mm)

Sample [Link] Glauconite Medium to


5 3d-models/sr-31- Glauconitic Quartz Clastic coarse-
ed66e5975a7d401aaa1 Sandstone Feldspar grained sand
5cbc33b538d88 Muscovite sized
(1/16 to
2mm)
Sample Medium to
6 coarse-
Quartz grained sand
Graywacke Feldspar Clastic sized
(Sandstone) Clay matrix (1/16 to
2mm)

Sample
7 Coarse-
Rock Salt Mainly Sodium Non-clastic grained
Chloride (Chemical) (2 to 20mm)

Sample [Link] Mainly Carbon


8 3d-models/sr-34- with other
c7e90690b0f148e7b6e0 Coal elements Non-clastic Fine-grained
b02c256060c9 (hydrogen, (Organic)
sulfur, oxygen
and nitrogen)
Sample [Link] Rounded Coarse-
9 3d-models/sr-33- fragments of grained
bee8d58859d945f4a5fc Conglomerate rocks (Gravel) Clastic Gravel size
6faec09b8130 cemented by (>2mm)
calcite, silica
Sample
10

Chert Microcrystalline Non-clastic Very fine-


Quartz (Chemical or grained
Biochemical)

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