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2013 Rock - Min ID Sheets PDF
2013 Rock - Min ID Sheets PDF
often grayish-green,
aligned minerals,
Non-Granular
(Massive)
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Figure 3. Sedimentary rocks ID chart.
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(i.e. fossiliferous sandstone or
fossiliferous shale)
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Many colors (often dull, sometimes translucent), hard (scratches glass), conchoidal fracture
Quartz
(can break in smooth curves), no cleavage
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Gypsum
good cleavage in 2 directions (but not at 90o)
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White or translucent, soft, 3 cleavage planes (cubic crystals),
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salty taste (taste at your own risk!)
Limonite Yellow-orange, soft, amorphous (no constant or regular shape)
Feldspar White/pink/tan, hard (scratches glass), good cleavage in 2 directions
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