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EXAMPLES OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
Angular rock Red color due to
Calcite (composed of fragments
minute organic remains) iron oxide
Salt or sand
Powdery groundmass
texture (matrix)
Band of Band of
chert siderite
CHALK
Millet-seed
BRECCIA texture
RED SANDSTONE
Sharp Halite
edge crystals
Conchoidal
fracture
BANDED IRONSTONE FLINT ORANGE HALITE (ROCK SALT)
Colorado Kaibab
River valley Plateau Grand
Canyon
Kaiparowits Navajo Vermilion Black Painted North
Plateau Mountain Cliffs Mesa Desert rim Cape
Royal
South
rim
Colorado
River
Supai Redwall Temple Butte Muav Bright Angel Dox Shinumo Hakatai Diabase Bass Tapeats
group limestone limestone limestone shale formation quartzite shale sill formation sandstone
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