The Historical Significance of Sedimentary Rocks

General Outline

What Sedimentary Rocks Tell Us

• Environment of Deposition
  
• Paleoenvironmental Analysis
  - Plate Tectonic setting
  

How and What We Observe

• Petrography
  - texture
  - mineralogy
  
• Sedimentary Structures
  
• Fossils
  
• Geometry
• Sequences
  

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last updated 1-2-98

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