Sedimentary Rocks

What are the two types of weathering in Sedimentary Rocks?

What is erosion?

What are the mechanisms by which each can occur?

What are the different types of sedimentary rock, and how do they differ in formation?

What are the features we use to classify clastic sedimentary rocks?

What is a bed?

What are strata?

What is a sedimentary structure, and what are some of the sedimentary structures we’ve talked about?

What are the different depositional environments where sediments get deposited?

What does ‘deposited’ mean?

What are transgression and regression?

What’s diagenesis?

What is lithification?

What does ‘paleoenvironmental interpretation’ mean?