GEO 102 Lecture 16 Outline of Last Lecture I Types of Physical Weathering Outline of Current Lecture II Life of a Rock III Sorting IV Rounding V Environments of Deposition Current Lecture Life of a Rock Let s imagine how a parent rock granite becomes a series of daughter rocks shale sandstone and siltstone o Weathering o Erosion o Sorting o Rounding o Deposition different environments o Lithification o Uplif Sorting The longer time and distance a sediment is transported the more it will sort according to mass Rounding The longer time and distance a sediment is transported the more it will round according to hardness Environments of Deposition Other signs of depositional environments o Ripple marks These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o o o o o o Cross bedding Larger debris Desiccation cracks Fossils Chemistry Mineralogy
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