Exam 17: Glaciers and Glaciation

Where would you expect turbidites to form?

A cherty limestone would contain which major constituents?

What sedimentary rock type most commonly contains terrestrial plant fossils?

Coal beds originate in what type of depositional environment?

Which of the following minerals are listed in order of increasing solubility in seawater (from least soluble to most soluble)?

In what setting would you expect to find massive, unsorted, poorly bedded deposits ranging in size from boulders to clays?

What does a sediment layer bounded by two bedding planes indicate?

What is probably the single most important, original, depositional feature in all sedimentary rocks?

Which type of sandstone contains abundant, clayey, matrix material?

Carbonized fossils of Opabina, Ottoia, and Wiwaxia would have to come from the_________ .

The type of diagenesis that occurs in the transformation of aragonite to calcite is ______.

________cement produces bright- red and yellow colors in some sandstone.

Shales are usually described as weak because they are_______ .

What is the usual order, first to last, for the precipitation of the following evaporite minerals from concentrated seawater?

What rock type would be made mostly from particles 1/256 mm and has lots of thin flat laminae and a reddish colour?

Which sediment gets lithified to become shale?

A horizontally bedded succession of thick, well sorted sands, containing moderately dipping layers between the flatlying upper and lower surfaces of each bed are called _________.

The oldest multicellular organisms from the_________ are known only as imprints and have no hard body parts for any of the fauna.

How are sedimentary environments categorized or distinguished from each other?

How do unconsolidated sediments originate?