Phi Units” Size Wentworth Size Class Sediment/Reck Name
8 | 256mm
8 84 rm
ee 4mm
a 2mm
0 tm
1 12 mm
2 114 mn
a 178 rem
4 | item
8 | 1266 mm
Boulders
Cabbles
Pebbles
Granules:
Very Coarse Sand
Coarse Sand
Medium Sand
Fine Sand
Very Fine Sand
sit
Clay
Sediment GRAVEL
Rock RUDITES :
(conglomerates, breccias)|*
Sediment SAND
Racks: SANDSTONES
(arenites, wackes)
Sediment MUD
Rocks: LUTITES
(roudrocks)
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Sek ci crea ace, oa
mane | See eramnemee pasar ae | Umene
a coriae
Bellas Fused quartz grains will fracture across
Soa ee
— |Rugary texture, Gut smoother than sand:
z Serpentine | an dean Commorty has ‘Slckenaiged | Matic or Uramatic
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[eget neck Name Distinctive Features Parent Rock
kk sine an ‘sate"Commonly dan gy ere, | tone, shale skie
| ommme | Peptdro nis acto | teen ta wt
Often gray or gray-green. :
z Vile algns lay or atonoteminarate | aca
‘ancien. A coarse-grained rock with banded | Siicie iareous racks,
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
‘ste Nowtaste
Voeancaste | | Tonigenous deste Cabonates others Pepcies
loniies trontones
conomeraes rece,
secu! depoats
Minera grains Lhe asm Bogen mateat |_| chemical pretats
@ | diterent rote Diterent rocks iter roots Diternt rots
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2 usr Limestone shots carbonates
&S ‘Mica ‘Mudrock ‘Skeletal material Chlorides
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