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The Rock Professor has provided you with a mineral
information card. Print on stock paper, and cut out to
enhance your rock and mineral products.
To print: with your cursor, highlight the entire card below,
right click and select print, then click on "selection"
and print.
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THE ROCK PROFESSOR
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Sandstone -
Decorative Slice
Sandstone canyon wall -
Zion, Utah
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| SANDSTONE |
SANDSTONE is a sedimentary rock composed of sand-sized grains of quartz and feldspar.The spaces between grains may be empty or filled with either a chemical cement of silica or calcium carbonate or a fine-grained matrix of silt and clay particles. Sandstones often form in layers in environments where large amounts of sands can accumlate such as beaches, deserts, flood plains, and deltas.
Sandstones are often used as building stones, and have importance to geologists as indicators of erosional and depositional processes.
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