GEOL 1330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Calcium Carbonate, Chert, Evaporation

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Course: GEOL 1330
• Professor: Michael Murphy

Document Summary

They account for about 5%(by volume) of earth"s outer 10 miles. The process by which sediment becomes sedimentary rocks. Void space, the volume being stored in a natural resource, passing through the space. Rock types are based on the source of the materials. Size of the grains=energy of the body system. Transportation reduces the size and angularity of particles but does not change their general shape. The pore space are filled in and compressed by the bodies of grains/sands. Precipitated minerals of the pore space by product of grains. The pore space gets lower because it ger compromised by the amount of product of grains. Measure of the ease with which a fluid flows through a rock. Oil: trap ideal reservoir rock has high porosity and permeability. Creates a void space by the water"s high pressure. Grain size variability in a sample of sediments or rocks.