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Explain the relationship between the age of minerals within a clastic sedimentary rock and the timing of the rock's formation?
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Since the rock particles, or clasts, that go into the making of a clastic sedimentary rock are weathered and eroded out of a previous rock formation, logically, they would be older than the cementious material that holds together the newly formed clastic sedimentary rock. Visualize a piece of San Onofre breccia, a sedimentary breccia rock which contains volcanic basalts, metamorphic schists, and other rocks, all cemented together as a sedimentary rock. The pieces of the rock are all from previously formed and eroded rocks. Although the sedimentary rock is fairly new, geologically speaking, the rock parts that make it up are much older.
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