Angular Grain BRECCIA

Gravel
Grain
Rounded Grain CONGLOMER
Gravel ATS
Grain visible or Gravel
rock feels gritty

Scratch Glass
gritty Grain <but Rounded Grain SAND
still visible STONE
Gravel

Feeld gritty but can’t see particles SILT STONE

DO NOT React With Acid

even with microscope scrathes

fingernail readly

No Grain may feel Conchoidal fracture glassy, dull CHERT

gritty or be glassy luster, many colors

Feels Smooth does not strach SHALE

fingernail ; often layered

Black, light weight COAL

smudgy or shiney

Salty taste, three perfect, right ROCK SALT

angle cleavages, clear, gray ( HALITE )
White, pink, clear,
crystaline, softer
than fingernail Softer than finger nail ; pink or
GYPSUM
white ; fiberous thick plates or
dense

Fire grained matrix ( micrite ) FOSSIL

Softer Than Glass

Abudant fossils whit many fossils or fossil
present whole or
LIMESTONE
fragments
broken
Porous, light weight;
broken shell fragment; tan
COQUINA
Reacts with dilute to whitist
hydrochloric acid (
React With Dilute Acid

Miniature spheres about 1mm in

HCl ) diameter, like tiny pearls; white, gray, OOLITC
blue-gray common LIMESTONE

White, powdery feels gritty: CHALK

react vigorously with acid LIMESTONE

Fine Grained; smooth; dense; often

MICRITE
conchoidal fracture, or irregular
LIMESTONE
blocky

Rock must be Must be powdered to react

DOLOMITE
powdered to react with acid; dull luster: gray, tan
with acid ( HCl ) white, plus many other colors