Sedimentary rock

Deutsch: Sedimentgesteine

Français : roches sédimentaires

Español: rocas sedimentarias

日本語: 堆積岩

Русский: Осадочные породы

Detrital (clastic) and/or terrigenous sedimentary rocks

Conglomerates

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  Conglomerate with pebble-sized clasts and sandy matrix, Early Hesperian (corresp. to Early Archaean), Gale Crater, Mars
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  Isolated conglomerate boulder with dark matrix, ? Shawangunk Formation, Silurian, Pennsylvania
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  Graded conglomerate with boulder-sized clasts at base, Permian, Corsica, France
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  Compositionally and texturally very heterogenous conglomerate, Woodton Formation, Permian, New South Wales
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  Nagelfluh (molasse conglomerate of the North Alpine Foreland Basin), Miocene, S Germany

Sandstones

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  Cross bedded fine sandstone, Yellowknife Bay Formation, Early Hesperian (corresp. to Early Archaean), Gale Crater, Mars
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  Jacobsville Sandstone sample, Mesoproterozoic, Michigan
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  Variegated sandstone in artificial cave, Umm Ishrin Formation, Cambrian, Jordan
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  Cross-bedded, bitumen-stained sandstone, Lower Eday Sandstone, Middle Devonian, Orkneys, UK
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  Greywacke (matrix-rich, poorly sorted sandstone), Lower Carboniferous, Czech Republic
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  Fine sandstones associated with coal seam, Witten Formation, Upper Carboniferous, W Germany
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  Large sandstone slab with ripple marks on bedding plane, Schilfsandstein (Middle Keuper), Upper Triassic, SW Germany
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  Massive, cross-bedded dune beds, Forest Sandstone, Jurassic, Zimbabwe
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  Chunks of sandstone (stained by iron-bearing weathering solutions) in talus at Makthesh Katan, Lower Cretaceous, Negev, Israel
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  Microscopic image of glauconite-bearing sandstone (crossed niccols), Buchak series, Paleogene, Ukraine

Mudstones, Argillites and Shales

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  Laminated argillite with microfossils (arrows) in thin section, Appekunny Argillite, Mesoproterozoic, Montana
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  Massive mudrock, with dropstone, Konnarock Formation, Neoproterozoic, Virginia
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  Kukersite (highly fossiliferous oil shale), Ordovician, Estonia
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  Sydney Mines Formation, Upper Carboniferous, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
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  Slabs of whitish weathering shale with impressions of reptile skeletons, Whitehill Formation, Lower Permian, Namibia
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  Variegated mudrocks, with erosional features, Moenkopi Formation, Lower Triassic, Capitol Reef, Utah
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  Silty mudstone sample with neuropteran insect fossil, Yixiang Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Liaoning
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  Close-up of laminated oil shale, Messel Formation, Eocene, Germany
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  Loess (eolian silt) sample, Quaternary, NE France

Chemical and/or aquagenous (including marine-biogenic) sedimentary rocks

Carbonate rocks (limestone and dolomite)

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  Dolomitic mudstone, Nuccaleena Formation, Ediacaran, South Australia
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  Glacial erratic lime mudstone cobble with orthoceratid fossil, originally from the Ordovician of S Sweden
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  Ockerkalk (dark bioturbated lime mudstone; polished slab), Silurian, Germany
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  Oolithic limestone sample, Salem Limestone, Lower Carboniferous, Indiana
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  Coral limestone, Lower Carboniferous, Scotland
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  Crinoidal red limestone, Hirlatzkalk, Upper Triassic/Lower Jurassic, Austria
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  Ammonitico rosso (nodular red lime mudstone), Lower Jurassic, N Italy
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  Brecciated dolostone, Pleš Breccia, Lower Jurassic, Slovakia
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  Lime mudstone, Gerofit Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Negev, Israel
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  Soft lime mudstone (chalk), Upper Cretaceous, Denmark
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  Examples of fine-grained limestones from the Upper Creatceous of Spain and Germany in thin section
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  Coquina (cemented coarse shell debris), Anastasia Formation, Quaternary, Florida
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  limestone rocks, Grignetta (Alps)

Evaporites

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  Slightly folded rock gypsum, Castile Formation, Upper Permian, New Mexico
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  Rock anhydrite in thin section (crossed niccols) showing gypsification, Hauptanhydrit, Upper Permian, Germany
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  Core samples of rock salt, Nong Bok Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Laos
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  Small sample of carnallitic rock, Cardona Saline Formation, Eocene, NE Spain

Miscellaneous

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  Banded iron formation sample, Moories Group (Barberton Greenstone Belt), Mesoarchaean, South Africa
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  Sample of massive lydite (‘siliceous shale’), Silurian, Germany