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What feature of sedimentary rock is mesured by wentworth scale of grain size?
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Which feature of sedimentary rock is measured by the Wentworth scale of grain size?
Texture
What feature of sedimentary rock is measured by the Wentworth scale of grain size?
texture
What clastic sedimentary rock has a very fine grain?
shale
What property of detrital sedimentary rocks can be indicative of the energy of sediment transport?
Grain size
Are pearls sedimentary igneous or metamorphic?
Pearls are formed within the soft tissue of mollusks, and start as a grain of sand. The mollusk concretes thin layers of calcium carbonate over the grain of sand. Therefore, a pearl would be considered sedimentary.
Which feature of sedimentary rock is measured by the Wentworth scale of grain size?
Texture
What feature of sedimentary rock is measured by the Wentworth scale of grain size?
texture
What feature of sedimentary rock is measured by the Wentworth scale of grain sizes?
texture
What is an arenite?
An arenite is a sedimentary rock with a grain size in the sand range on the Wentworth scale.
What sedimentary rock is measured by the wentworth scale of grain?
The Wentworth Scale commonly measures grains of boulders, cobble, gravel, pebbles, sand, silt, clay and calloid.
What clastic sedimentary rock has a very fine grain?
shale
What features tells you how large the grain of a sedimentary rock?
texture
What is the name of a sedimentary rock usually based on?
The name of sedimentary rock is usually based on it's grain size.
What are a couple of examples of sedimentary rocks?
Rocks that are categorized as sedimentary rocks include sandstone, breccia shale, limestone and selenite. Sedimentary rocks are classified by their grain size.
What property of detrital sedimentary rocks can be indicative of the energy of sediment transport?
Grain size
Are pearls sedimentary igneous or metamorphic?
Pearls are formed within the soft tissue of mollusks, and start as a grain of sand. The mollusk concretes thin layers of calcium carbonate over the grain of sand. Therefore, a pearl would be considered sedimentary.
Which sedimentary rock has the coarsest grain flint or limestone or sandstone?
== == The "coarseness" of a sedimentary rock refers to the rock's textural character, and more particularly, the size of grains contained within it. Thus, a conglomerate containing pebble or cobble clasts is coarser than a sandstone containing sand grains. In the same way, a conglomerate containing boulders is coarser than a conglomerate containing pebbles. Clastic sedimentary rocks are classified using the Wentworth Scale. The coarsest elements of this scale are the Rudites. Boulder rudites are conglomeratic rocks with grains of diameter greater than 256mm. They are the coarsest element described on the Wentworth Scale. There is no upper limit to the scale of sedimentary coarseness, since the size of clast which can be preserved in a sedimentary rocks is potentially very large. 'Olistolith' is a term which describes very large clasts often derived from the sub-sea collapse of oversteepened slopes such as are found at continental margins. Sediments containing olistoliths may reasonably be described as the coarsest sedimentary rocks.
