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Sedimentary Rock Gallery Mystery rock #1

Sedimentary Rock Gallery Mystery rock #1. Clastic or nonclastic? Clastic Grain size? Fine-grained Rock name? SHALE! This is the only sedimentary rock that can be scratched with your fingernail!. Mystery rock #2. Clastic or nonclastic? Clastic Grain size? Fine-grained Rock name?

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Sedimentary Rock Gallery Mystery rock #1

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  1. Sedimentary Rock GalleryMystery rock #1 • Clastic or nonclastic? Clastic • Grain size? Fine-grained • Rock name? SHALE! • This is the only sedimentary rock that can be scratched with your fingernail!

  2. Mystery rock #2 • Clastic or nonclastic? Clastic • Grain size? Fine-grained • Rock name? SILTSTONE!

  3. Mystery rock #3 • Clastic or nonclastic? Clastic • Grain size? Fine-grained • Rock name? SANDSTONE!

  4. Mystery rock #4 • Clastic or nonclastic? Clastic • Grain size? Coase-grained • Rock name? CONGLOMERATE! Rounded clasts

  5. Mystery rock #5 • Clastic or nonclastic? Clastic • Grain size? Coarse-grained • Rock name? BRECCIA! Angular clasts

  6. Mystery rock #6 • Clastic or nonclastic? Bioclastic • Grain size? Fine-grained • Rock name? FOSSIL LIMESTONE!

  7. Mystery rock #7 • Clastic or nonclastic? Crystalline • Grain size? Fine-grained • Rock name? ROCK GYPSUM!

  8. Mystery rock #8 • Clastic or nonclastic? Crystalline • Grain size? Coarse-grained • Rock name? ROCK SALT!

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