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Rock Identification

 
 
Reply Fri 4 Apr, 2014 05:08 pm
I'm Trying to identify these rocks. Can anyone help me.

A https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4H_HxPuVXEyTjctdDFSWjk0eWc/edit
B https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4H_HxPuVXEybW1xQ1Z3emc3RGs/edit
C https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4H_HxPuVXEyeXd1QkotMzhJY1k/edit
D https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4H_HxPuVXEyRzZfanlfNmZEQ0k/edit
F https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4H_HxPuVXEyTGZvMnM1eEVmTDA/edit
M https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4H_HxPuVXEybS1kMElMdmtXclk/edit
S https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4H_HxPuVXEyUDhCbk9mV0ktb2c/edit
R https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4H_HxPuVXEyYTd1bW1fQ21VZDA/edit
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Reply Sat 5 Apr, 2014 04:23 am
@bumblebee8022000,
The most ordinary rocks are the most difficult to id.
First--Your pitcures aren't really very good to display the rocks bedding or dtructure features. Also they are mostly unbroken and mostly covered with lichens . This hides their internal structure so. Anything I give you is a guess and a general one at that

A-looks like a hexagonal (columnar) jointed piece of an igneous rock. OR ELSE, its a red sandstone. I cant really tell from thepicture. The six sided feature it makes as it lays there, is usually a dead giveaway for some igneous rock like diabase or basalt. However , these rocks aren't usually the color of yours.
BToo covered with lichens to be definitive but Id say its a red sandstone

C Its a sandstone, we can see the bedding layers

DLooks like a conglomerate but again, its too covered with lichens
F This one is really too coverd to tell accurately

M Layered sandstone or siltstone

S Looks like a siltstone or laminar limestone with quartz lenses in the minor folds

S'-The last one looks like a shale

Better pictures with the pictures taken on a fresh broken surface . If these are rocks around your school yard. Don't break them up. Instead, get a state geology map that includes the area where they come from and see what the geology is listed as. That is a good clue
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