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Two diagrams compare sediment sorting: the left shows poorly sorted sediment with mixed sizes and shapes, while the right shows well-sorted sediment with uniform, similarly sized grains.

Geochronology. Table 14: Periods of Sedimentary Perturbation

A chart categorizes common textural terms for rocks by grain size in millimeters, dividing them into igneous and metamorphic, sedimentary, and pyroclastic types, with terms like phaneritic, sand, silt, breccia, and ash shown in relation to size.

Study the place of sedimentary rock in the rock cycle and how geologists classify such geologic formations

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Study the place of sedimentary rock in the rock cycle and how geologists classify such geologic formations

Study the place of sedimentary rock in the rock cycle and how geologists classify such geologic formations

Sedimentary rock is created by the bonding of sediment from broken down minerals.

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Two diagrams compare sediment sorting: the left shows poorly sorted sediment with mixed sizes and shapes, while the right shows well-sorted sediment with uniform, similarly sized grains.

rock sorting

Figure 2: Sorting.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Geochronology. Table 14: Periods of Sedimentary Perturbation

A chart categorizes common textural terms for rocks by grain size in millimeters, dividing them into igneous and metamorphic, sedimentary, and pyroclastic types, with terms like phaneritic, sand, silt, breccia, and ash shown in relation to size.

rock textural terms

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