Sedimentary Rocks Photo Gallery

Clastic Sedimentary Rocks

Shale	Siltstone	Sandstone

Conglomerate	Breccia

Evaporites

Rock Salt	Rock Gypsum

Precipitates

Chemical Limestone	Dolostone

Travertine	Calcareous Tufa	Calcareous Tufa Close-up

Chert	Flint

Bioclastic Rocks

Fossil Limestone	Coquina	Chalk

Chalk Cliffs, Buena Vista Colorado

Bituminous Coal

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Rock Photos (Rows 1,2 and 3, Chert, Fossil Limestone and Coal) are courtesy of and are © USGS Minerals and Materials Photo Gallery.
Flint nodule from the Onondaga limestone layer, Buffalo NY is courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
Chemical Hoyt Limestone, Coquina and Calcareous Travertine (Tufa) Photographs are courtesy of and © 2006 by Andrew Alden, geology.about.com, reproduced under educational fair use.
Chalk Cliffs, CO Photos is courtesy of and is © Debris Flows near Buena Vista, Colorado By Jeffery A. Coe, Jonathan W. Godt, and Rex L. Baum; USGS
Dolostone Photo is courtesy of and is © USGS; U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-221; A Pictorial Survey of the Bedrock Beneath Western Cape Cod, Massachusetts

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