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Page 1: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. Significance for Climate and CCS Form at the surface, so directly influnced by Earth’s climate, provide the climate record

Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks

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Significance for Climate and CCS

Form at the surface, so directly influnced by Earth’s climate, provide the climate record

Provide reservoir and seal lithologies

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The Rock Cycle

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Major Sediment/ Sedimentary Rock Types

Clastics • Particles of preexisting rock

Chemical and biochemical • Precipitated from solution

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Clastics

• Particles of preexisting rock

• Effect of weathering

• Dominantly silicate minerals

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Gravel and conglomerate/breccia

• > 30% of grains > 2mm

• Conglomerate if rounded, breccia if angular

• Need strong currents

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Sand and sandstone

• Dominantly sand sized particles (.062 - 2 mm)

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Sand and sandstone

• Dominantly sand sized particles (.062 - 2 mm)

• Major kinds of sandstones• Quartz arenites

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Quartz arenite

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Sand and sandstone

• Dominantly sand sized particles (.062 - 2 mm)

• Major kinds of sandstones• Quartz arenites• Arkoses

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Arkose

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Sand and sandstone

• Dominantly sand sized particles (.062 - 2 mm)

• Major kinds of sandstones• Quartz arenites• Arkoses• Lithic arenites

• Graywacke (wacke)

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Graywacke

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Mud and mudrock

• Particles dominantly (<0.062)

• Silt and siltstone (0.062 - 0.004 mm)

• Clay and claystone (<0.004 mm)

• Weak to no currents

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Shale(Mudrock)

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Chemical and biochemical

• Precipitated from solution• Formed at or near place of deposition• Dominantly carbonates & evaporites• Classified by chemical composition

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Carbonates

• Limestone (CaCO3)

• Dolostone (CaMg(CO3)2)

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The White Cliffs of Dover

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Evaporites

Halite (NaCl)

Gypsum (CaSO4.2H2O)

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Bonneville salt flats, Utah

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Siliceous

Chert (microcrystalline SiO2) Flint Jasper Agate

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Jasper

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Agate

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Siliceous

Chert (microcrystalline SiO2) Flint Jasper Agate

Siliceous sediment Microfossils

Radiolarians

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Bedded Chert

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Siliceous

Chert (microcrystalline SiO2) Flint Jasper Agate

Siliceous sediment Microfossils

Diagenetic

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Chert nodules in Permian Kaibab Limestone. Grand Canyon, Arizona

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Phosphorite

Rich in phosphorous Ca10(PO4,CO3)6F2-3

Phosphatic sediment (e.g., fish bones)

Diagenetic

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Bat guano, Slaughter Canyon Cave, NM

Why is this geology student so happy?

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Transportation and deposition

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Currents

• Air and water

• The faster the current the larger the particles

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Settling velocity

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Sorting

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Rounding

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Sedimentary Structures

• Depositional• Erosional • Deformational• Chemical (diagenetic)

Large-scale features of sedimentary rocks that result from physical and/or chemical processes

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Stratification•Bedding•Lamination

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Laminated shale

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1957, Charles Herbert

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Depositional (Sedimentary) Environments

A geographic location characterized by a particular combination of geological processes and environmental conditions

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Diagenesis

All the changes sediment undergoes subsequent to deposition and prior to metamorphism

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Physical (mechanical) diagenesis

• Compaction

• Fracturing

• Ductile deformation

• Grain rearrangement

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Chemical diagenesis

• Mineral precipitation (cementation)

• Dissolution• Grain• Cement

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Lithification

The processes by which sediment is transformed into sedimentary rock