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Rock assessment

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Hemalatha answered on May 10 2021

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The general features of this rock are as follow.
· It is an example of clastic sedimentary rock.
· The grain size is coarse.
· It is an opaque rock.
· Clasts are smooth to touch, rounded and shiny in appearance.
· It is a soft and durable rock.
· The common colors of this rock are orange, white,yellow,grey,
own, beige and such colors; the color of the rock shown in the picture is beige and
own
· Mineral composition- Limestone, granite, quartz, basalt, gneiss. The binding matrix is composed of sand grains and mud
Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock which originates from rounded gravel and clasts and usually the size of a boulder (around and over 2 mm in diameter) which are rounded. The space between them is cemented together in a matrix, with finer particles like calcite or quarzite.
Conglomerate formation occurs if comprising of pe
les mainly and co
le-size clasts over two millimetres in diameter start depositing ting and if such materials are buried and lithified, are transformed into a conglomerate. Presence of a source of...

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