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113 relations: Accommodation (geology), Alcove (landform), Anhydrite, Antelope Canyon, Aquifer, Arches National Park, Arkose, Asphalt concrete, Baryte, BBC News, Beach, Biotite, Bioturbation, Building material, Cementation (geology), Chalk, Chert, Civil engineering, Clastic rock, Clay mineral, Coal, Collyhurst, Compaction (geology), Corundum, Depositional environment, Diagenesis, Erosion, Façade, Feldspar, Field research, Flash flood, Forearc, Fossil, Francis J. Pettijohn, Friability, Garnet, Gazzi-Dickinson method, Global Heritage Stone Resource, Goldich dissolution series, Graben, Grain size, Granitoid, Greywacke, Grindstone, Gritstone, Groundwater, Gypsum, Hardness, Heavy mineral, Hematite, ... Expand index (63 more) »
Accommodation (geology)
Accommodation is a fundamental concept in sequence stratigraphy, a subdiscipline of geology.
See Sandstone and Accommodation (geology)
Alcove (landform)
Alcoves is the geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded.
See Sandstone and Alcove (landform)
Anhydrite
Anhydrite, or anhydrous calcium sulfate, is a mineral with the chemical formula CaSO4.
Antelope Canyon
Navajo Upper Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon in the American Southwest, on Navajo land east of Lechee, Arizona.
See Sandstone and Antelope Canyon
Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
Arches National Park
Arches National Park is a national park in eastern Utah, United States.
See Sandstone and Arches National Park
Arkose
Arkose or arkosic sandstone is a detrital sedimentary rock, specifically a type of sandstone containing at least 25% feldspar.
Asphalt concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams.
See Sandstone and Asphalt concrete
Baryte
Baryte, barite or barytes is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO4). Sandstone and baryte are Industrial minerals.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.
Biotite
Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula.
Bioturbation
Bioturbation is defined as the reworking of soils and sediments by animals or plants.
See Sandstone and Bioturbation
Building material
Building material is material used for construction.
See Sandstone and Building material
Cementation (geology)
Cementation involves ions carried in groundwater chemically precipitating to form new crystalline material between sedimentary grains.
See Sandstone and Cementation (geology)
Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock.
Chert
Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.
See Sandstone and Civil engineering
Clastic rock
Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.
See Sandstone and Clastic rock
Clay mineral
Clay minerals are hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates (e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4), sometimes with variable amounts of iron, magnesium, alkali metals, alkaline earths, and other cations found on or near some planetary surfaces.
See Sandstone and Clay mineral
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
Collyhurst
Collyhurst is an inner city area of Manchester, England, northeast of the city centre on Rochdale Road (A664) and Oldham Road (A62), bounded by Smedley, Harpurhey and Monsall to the north, Miles Platting to the east, Ancoats to the south, and the River Irk to the west.
Compaction (geology)
In sedimentology, compaction is the process by which a sediment progressively loses its porosity due to the effects of pressure from loading.
See Sandstone and Compaction (geology)
Corundum
Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminium oxide typically containing traces of iron, titanium, vanadium, and chromium. Sandstone and Corundum are Industrial minerals.
Depositional environment
In geology, depositional environment or sedimentary environment describes the combination of physical, chemical, and biological processes associated with the deposition of a particular type of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record.
See Sandstone and Depositional environment
Diagenesis
Diagenesis is the process that describes physical and chemical changes in sediments first caused by water-rock interactions, microbial activity, and compaction after their deposition.
Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Façade
A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.
Feldspar
Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium. Sandstone and Feldspar are Industrial minerals.
Field research
Field research, field studies, or fieldwork is the collection of raw data outside a laboratory, library, or workplace setting.
See Sandstone and Field research
Flash flood
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.
Forearc
Forearc is a plate tectonic term referring to a region in a subduction zone between an oceanic trench and the associated volcanic arc.
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
Francis J. Pettijohn
Francis John Pettijohn (June 20, 1904 – April 23, 1999) was an American geologist who served for many years on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University.
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Friability
In materials science, friability, the condition of being friable, describes the tendency of a solid substance to break into smaller pieces under stress or contact, especially by rubbing.
Garnet
Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Sandstone and Garnet are Industrial minerals.
Gazzi-Dickinson method
The Gazzi-Dickinson method is a point-counting technique used in geology to statistically measure the components of a sedimentary rock, chiefly sandstone.
See Sandstone and Gazzi-Dickinson method
Global Heritage Stone Resource
The Global Heritage Stone Resource (GHSR) designation seeks international recognition of natural stone resources that have achieved widespread utilisation in human culture. Sandstone and Global Heritage Stone Resource are building stone.
See Sandstone and Global Heritage Stone Resource
Goldich dissolution series
The Goldich dissolution series is a method of predicting the relative stability or weathering rate of common igneous minerals on the Earth's surface, with minerals that form at higher temperatures and pressures less stable on the surface than minerals that form at lower temperatures and pressures.
See Sandstone and Goldich dissolution series
Graben
In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.
Grain size
Grain size (or particle size) is the diameter of individual grains of sediment, or the lithified particles in clastic rocks.
Granitoid
A granitoid is a generic term for a diverse category of coarse-grained igneous rocks that consist predominantly of quartz, plagioclase, and alkali feldspar.
Greywacke
Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or sand-size lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
Grindstone
A grindstone, also known as grinding stone, is a sharpening stone used for grinding or sharpening ferrous tools, used since ancient times.
Gritstone
Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone.
Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
Gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula. Sandstone and Gypsum are Industrial minerals.
Hardness
In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to plastic deformation, such as an indentation (over an area) or a scratch (linear), induced mechanically either by pressing or abrasion.
Heavy mineral
In geology, a heavy mineral is a mineral with a density that is greater than 2.9 g/cm3, most commonly referring to dense components of siliciclastic sediments.
See Sandstone and Heavy mineral
Hematite
Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is a common iron oxide compound with the formula, Fe2O3 and is widely found in rocks and soils.
Hierarchy
A hierarchy (from Greek:, from, 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another.
Homogeneity and heterogeneity
Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity of a substance, process or image.
See Sandstone and Homogeneity and heterogeneity
Hydraulic head
Hydraulic head or piezometric head is a specific measurement of liquid pressure above a vertical datum.
See Sandstone and Hydraulic head
Igneous rock
Igneous rock, or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
See Sandstone and Igneous rock
James Madison University
James Madison University (JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
See Sandstone and James Madison University
Jasper
Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.
Limonite
Limonite is an iron ore consisting of a mixture of hydrated iron(III) oxide-hydroxides in varying composition.
Lithic fragment (geology)
Lithic fragments, or lithics, are pieces of other rocks that have been eroded down to sand size and now are sand grains in a sedimentary rock.
See Sandstone and Lithic fragment (geology)
Lithification
Lithification (from the Ancient Greek word lithos meaning 'rock' and the Latin-derived suffix -ific) is the process in which sediments compact under pressure, expel connate fluids, and gradually become solid rock.
See Sandstone and Lithification
Logan Formation
The Logan Formation is the name given to a Lower Carboniferous (early Osagean) siltstone, sandstone and conglomeratic unit exposed in east-central Ohio and parts of western West Virginia, USA.
See Sandstone and Logan Formation
Magnetite
Magnetite is a mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula.
Mar del Plata style
The Mar del Plata style (Estilo Mar del Plata, chalet Mar del Plata or chalet marplatense) is a vernacular architectural style very popular during the decades between 1935 and 1950 mainly in the Argentine resort city of Mar del Plata, but extended to nearby coastal towns like Miramar and Necochea.
See Sandstone and Mar del Plata style
Matrix (geology)
The matrix or groundmass of a rock is the finer-grained mass of material in which larger grains, crystals, or clasts are embedded.
See Sandstone and Matrix (geology)
Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.
See Sandstone and Metamorphic rock
Metamorphism
Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture.
See Sandstone and Metamorphism
Meteoric water
Meteoric water, derived from precipitation such as snow and rain, includes water from lakes, rivers, and ice melts, all of which indirectly originate from precipitation.
See Sandstone and Meteoric water
Mica
Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into extremely thin elastic plates. Sandstone and mica are Industrial minerals.
Mineral
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.
Mississippian (geology)
The Mississippian (also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record.
See Sandstone and Mississippian (geology)
Muscovite
Muscovite (also known as common mica, isinglass, or potash mica) is a hydrated phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium with formula KAl2(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2, or (KF)2(Al2O3)3(SiO2)6(H2O).
Navajo Sandstone
The Navajo Sandstone is a geological formation in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the U.S. states of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, and Utah as part of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States.
See Sandstone and Navajo Sandstone
North West England
North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.
See Sandstone and North West England
Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Olivine
The mineral olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with the chemical formula. Sandstone and olivine are Industrial minerals.
Opal
Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica (SiO2·nH2O); its water content may range from 3% to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6% and 10%.
Orogenic belt
An orogenic belt, orogen, or mobile belt, is a zone of Earth's crust affected by orogeny.
See Sandstone and Orogenic belt
Percolation
In physics, chemistry, and materials science, percolation refers to the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials.
Permeability (materials science)
Permeability in fluid mechanics, materials science and Earth sciences (commonly symbolized as k) is a measure of the ability of a porous material (often, a rock or an unconsolidated material) to allow fluids to pass through it.
See Sandstone and Permeability (materials science)
Petra
Petra (Al-Batrāʾ; Πέτρα, "Rock"), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu (Nabataean: or, *Raqēmō), is a historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan.
Petroleum reservoir
A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.
See Sandstone and Petroleum reservoir
Plagioclase
Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.
Porosity
Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%.
Porphyroblast
A porphyroblast is a large mineral crystal in a metamorphic rock which has grown within the finer grained matrix.
See Sandstone and Porphyroblast
Pressure solution
In structural geology and diagenesis, pressure solution or pressure dissolution is a deformation mechanism that involves the dissolution of minerals at grain-to-grain contacts into an aqueous pore fluid in areas of relatively high stress and either deposition in regions of relatively low stress within the same rock or their complete removal from the rock within the fluid.
See Sandstone and Pressure solution
Provenance (geology)
Provenance in geology, is the reconstruction of the origin of sediments.
See Sandstone and Provenance (geology)
Pyroxene
The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated Px) are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.
QFL diagram
A QFL diagram or QFL triangle is a type of ternary diagram that shows compositional data from sandstones and modern sands, point counted using the Gazzi-Dickinson method.
Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). Sandstone and Quartz are Industrial minerals.
Quartz arenite
A quartz arenite or quartzarenite is a sandstone composed of greater than 90% detrital quartz.
See Sandstone and Quartz arenite
Quartzite
Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
Red beds
Red beds (or redbeds) are sedimentary rocks, typically consisting of sandstone, siltstone, and shale, that are predominantly red in color due to the presence of ferric oxides.
Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
Road surface
A road surface (British English) or pavement (North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway.
See Sandstone and Road surface
Rock-cut tomb
A rock-cut tomb is a burial chamber that is cut into an existing, naturally occurring rock formation, so a type of rock-cut architecture.
See Sandstone and Rock-cut tomb
Rutile
Rutile is an oxide mineral composed of titanium dioxide (TiO2), the most common natural form of TiO2.
Sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.
Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
See Sandstone and Sedimentary rock
Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. Sandstone and Shale are Industrial minerals.
Silicate mineral
Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups.
See Sandstone and Silicate mineral
Southwestern United States
The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.
See Sandstone and Southwestern United States
Tectonic subsidence
Tectonic subsidence is the sinking of the Earth's crust on a large scale, relative to crustal-scale features or the geoid.
See Sandstone and Tectonic subsidence
Tectonics
Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
Terrain
Terrain or relief (also topographical relief) involves the vertical and horizontal dimensions of land surface.
Thin section
In optical mineralogy and petrography, a thin section (or petrographic thin section) is a thin slice of a rock or mineral sample, prepared in a laboratory, for use with a polarizing petrographic microscope, electron microscope and electron microprobe.
See Sandstone and Thin section
Topography
Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces.
Tourmaline
Tourmaline is a crystalline silicate mineral group in which boron is compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium.
Volcanic arc
A volcanic arc (also known as a magmatic arc) is a belt of volcanoes formed above a subducting oceanic tectonic plate, with the belt arranged in an arc shape as seen from above.
See Sandstone and Volcanic arc
Volcanic rock
Volcanic rocks (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) are rocks formed from lava erupted from a volcano.
See Sandstone and Volcanic rock
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
Zeolite
Zeolite is a family of several microporous, crystalline aluminosilicate materials commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts. Sandstone and Zeolite are Industrial minerals.
Zircon
Zircon is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates and is a source of the metal zirconium.
ZTR index
The ZTR index is a method of determining how weathered, both chemically and mechanically, a sediment (or a corresponding sedimentary rock) is.
References
Also known as Pink sandstone, Quartz sandstone, Quartzitic sandstone, Red sandstone, Sand Flats Recreation Area, Sand stone, Sandstein, Sandstones.