This page contains links to brief articles on the basics of describing sedimentary rocks, including grain size and grain size distribution, sandstone classification, and mineralogy.
Check out the companion How to… pages: Common structural geology and mapping problems
Stratigraphy and sedimentology
Describing sedimentary rocks
Describing sedimentary rocks – some basics
Grain size of clastic rocks and sediments
Analysis of sediment grain size
Some controls on grain size distributions
Mineralogy of Sandstones
The mineralogy of sandstones: porosity and permeability
The mineralogy of sandstones: Quartz grains
The mineralogy of sandstones: Feldspar grains
The mineralogy of sandstones: lithic fragments
The mineralogy of sandstones: matrix and cement
Provenance of sandstones
The provenance of detrital zircon
Provenance and plate tectonics
