GL101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Diagenesis, Sediment Transport, Lithification
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What is a sedimentary: products of mechanical and chemical weathering, a(cid:271)out (cid:1009)% (cid:894)(cid:271)y volu(cid:373)e(cid:895) of earth"s outer (cid:1005)(cid:1010)k(cid:373, evidence of past environments. Info about sediment transport: commonly contain fossils, economically, coal, petroleum and natural gas. Iron, aluminum, manganese, fertilizer, raw materials for construction. Sediment into sedimentary rock: diagenesis and lithification: diagenesis, all changes after sediments are deposited but prior to metamorphism, upper few km of earth"s (cid:272)rust ge(cid:374)erally
