http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/lithology/clastic_sandstone
| alt label |
|
|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| broader |
|
|||||||||||
| definition | Clastic sedimentary rock in which less than 30 percent of particles are greater than 2 mm in diameter (gravel) and the sand to mud ratio is at least 1. | |||||||||||
| narrower |
|
|||||||||||
| note | Note this category is equivalent to cagetory labeled 'sandy rock' in SLTTs (2004), not to the much more restricted category labeled 'Sandstone' in that system. | |||||||||||
| source | SLTTs 2004; Neuendorf et al. 2005; particle size from Wentworth grade scale | |||||||||||
| type |
|
|||||||||||
| in scheme | simplelithology original | |||||||||||