CONSERVATION TALK Michael Trinkley Why Sandstone Monuments Have So Many Problems Whether in the Carolinas, Utah or Massachusetts many sandstone are in very poor condition. Why? And perhaps even more importantly, what can

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• Environmental soil science
• Soil science
• Sedimentary rocks
• Building materials
• Concrete
• Efflorescence
• Damp
• Soil salinity
• Sandstone
• Architecture
• Construction
• Chemistry

ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION OF SAND GRAINS Purpose To interpret the environment of formation of sands by matching the characteristics of the sand to those of known environments. Instructions

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• Sedimentology
• Metrology
• Petrology
• Geomorphology
• Roundness
• Sandstone
• Sand
• Grain
• Sphericity
• Geology
• Sedimentary rocks
• Measurement

DRY POROSITY Purpose The purpose of activity I is firstly to measure the porosity of well sorted sand before and after compaction, and secondly to see what variation there is between different grain sizes. In activity II

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• Materials science
• Soil mechanics
• Aquifers
• Porosity
• Sorting
• Sandstone
• Compaction
• Sediment
• Limestone
• Geology
• Sedimentary rocks
• Petroleum

Sand and sandstones Describing sandstones A P F 5 min per sample a) Students describe the size, sorting, roundness and colour of a variety of sandstones both by examining the sandstone and by rubbing grains off and exami

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• Petrology
• Construction
• Architecture
• Crystallography
• Sedimentary rocks
• Sandstone
• Stone

Clockwise from main image: Male wallaroos dispute, photo: Jenny Martin; Gouldian finch, photo: Stephen Garnett; Alaric Fisher holds a northern quoll; Sandstone towers at Broadmere Station, NT Gulf, photo: Alaric Fisher;

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• Biodiversity
• Natural resource management
• Conservation biology
• Savanna
• Biology
• Environment
• Earth

Extracted from the Geological Conservation Review You can view an introduction to this volume at http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-2731 © JNCC 1980–2007 Volume 16: Fossil Fishes of Great Britain

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• Placoderms
• Paleontology
• Osteolepiformes
• Lobe-finned fish
• Devonian
• Old Red Sandstone
• Coccosteus
• Osteolepidae
• Placodermi
• Fish
• Prehistoric fish
• Paleozoic

Interpreting sedimentary rocks History in a rock D Show how geologists can deduce the environment of deposition from the characteristics of the rock. For example hold up a piece of black shale with fossil reeds: fine gra

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• Sedimentary rocks
• Sedimentary structures
• Sedimentary depositional environment
• Sandstone
• Sediment
• Geology
• Sedimentology
• Petrology

The rock cycle demonstration Below is a series of visual aids that can be used to demonstrate the rock cycle. Some are explained in more detail under the specific subject. Physical weathering 1. A photograph of frost sha

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• Sandstone
• Weathering
• Rock cycle
• Nature
• Honeycomb weathering
• Sand
• Limestone
• Erosion
• Shale
• Sedimentary rocks
• Agriculture
• Earth

Sedimentary Structures Direction of transport cards D A5 cards with a sedimentary structure diagram on each are held up one at a time for students to work whether the direction is to the left or right. Interpreting sedim

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• Sedimentary rocks
• Petrology
• Building materials
• Ripple marks
• Cross-bedding
• Sole markings
• Plaster
• Mudcrack
• Sandstone
• Geology
• Sedimentary structures
• Sedimentology

COMPACTION OF SHALE WITH DEPTH Instructions 1. Plot the changing porosity, pore diameter and temperature with depth. 2. Comment on the movement of fluids from the source rock into an adjacent sandstone at various depths.

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