Multiple Choice
What does a sand that contains significant amounts of sand-sized rock fragments, blocky feldspar, and angular prismatic grains of ferromagnesian minerals suggest?
A) that it has travelled a short distance and was likely deposited very close to the source of the particles
B) that it has travelled a great distance in a uniform flow or has had more than one cycle of weathering, transport, and deposition.
C) that it had a very low velocity of transport and likely a shallow stream gradient
D) that it was derived from uplifted and eroded older sedimentary rocks
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