Sedimentary rock - Fabric, Deposition, Stratification

sedimentary rock

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Introduction
Classification systems
- Terrigenous clastic rocks
- Carbonate rocks: limestones and dolomites
- Noncarbonate chemical sedimentary rocks
Properties of sedimentary rocks
- Texture
  - Grain size
  - Particle shape
  - Fabric
- Mineralogical and geochemical composition
Sedimentary structures
- External stratification
- Bedding types and bedding-plane features
  - Types
  - Bedding-plane features
- Deformation structures
Sedimentary environments
Sedimentary rock types
- Conglomerates and breccias
  - Classification schemes
  - Epiclastic conglomerates and breccias
    - Clast-supported conglomerates
    - Matrix-supported conglomerates
- Sandstones
  - Sandstone components and colour
  - Formation of sandstones today
  - Bedding structure
  - Texture
  - Classification of sandstones
    - Quartz arenites
    - Arkosic sandstones
    - Lithic arenites
    - Wackes
- Mudrocks
  - General properties of shales
  - Origin of shales
  - Shales of economic value
- Limestones and dolomites
  - Mineralogy
  - Textural components
  - Origin of limestones
  - Dolomites and dolomitization
- Siliceous rocks
  - Types of cherts
  - Origin of cherts
- Phosphorites
- Evaporites
  - Nonmarine environment
  - Shallow marine environment
  - Deep-basin environment
- Iron-rich sedimentary rocks
  - Origin of banded iron formation
  - Origin of ironstones
- Organic-rich sedimentary deposits
  - Coal
  - Oil shale
  - Oil and natural gas
Secular trends in the sedimentary rock record

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The fabric of a sedimentary rock controls the rock’s porosity and permeability and therefore its ability to hold and/or transmit fluids such as oil and water. The orientation, or lack thereof, of the crystals or grains that make up a sedimentary rock constitutes one aspect of fabric. Genetically, there are two principal varieties of oriented fabrics: primary (or depositional) and secondary (or deformational). Primary fabrics are produced while the sediment is accumulating. For example, river currents and some submarine gravity flows generate sediments whose flaky and prismatic constituent particles have long or short axes parallel with one another to produce ...(100 of 17457 words)

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