Sedimentary Rocks
Sedimentary rocks are formed in layers. They are formed in places where there has been water at one time. Dead animals, plants, and rocks and minerals were carried by water, wind, ice, or gravity, yes GRAVITY! They usually are dropped off in bodies of water where they plummet to the bottom. Bit by bit they stack on top of each other and make layers.
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Information found at http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/sediment.htm?tql-iframe
This picture is of the sedimentary rock found in the part of the Appalachian Plateau that is in Georgia. It passes through the extreme northwest corner of Georgia. During the Ordovician Period (about 440 - 480 million years ago), the tectonic plate carrying this area collided with another plate, leading to the creation of a new subduction zone and the beginning of the Appalachian Plateau. It's sedimentary rock gives it a look of a kicked floor rug as a result of the plates colliding and later orogenies. It was alternating beds of hard and soft Paleozoic sedimentary rocks that were folded. It is used as a tourist attraction that you can go hang gliding, hiking, camping, and whitewater rafting.
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Picture from http://www.radford.edu/jtso/GeologyofVirginia/Rocks/GeologyOfVARocks2-6d.html
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This picture is of sedimentary rock in the part of the Coastal Plain that is in Georgia. The whole Coastal Plains extends from New Jersey to Texas. It consists of sedimentary rocks deposited in the Late Cretaceous to Holocene periods. A fall line separates the Piedmont from the Coastal Plains. It travels from Georgia from Augusta in the east, then southwestward to Macon, then to Columbus and finally westward to Montgomery, Alabama. It is used as a Native Americans used it to shape their environment for hunting. The main mineral in the Coastal Plain rocks in Georgia is kaolin.
The information for how it is used is from http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/upper-coastal-plain
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Picture from http://itc.gsw.edu/faculty/daskren/fallline.htm
The information for how it is used is from http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/upper-coastal-plain
Information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Georgia_%28U.S._state%29
Picture from http://itc.gsw.edu/faculty/daskren/fallline.htm
This picture is of the Rockmart Slate Folds and it is found near Rockmart, Georgia. A series of three mountain-building events affected eastern North America during the Paleozoic periods. These orogenies caused metamorphism, faulting, folding, and igneous intrusions in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge, as well as the folding and faulting of the sedimentary rocks of the Valley and Ridge and the Appalachian Plateau. It is used for school slates, black board material, tombstones, and roofing blocks or squares. It is also used for electrical switchboards and bases for electrical machines.
What it is used for was found at http://books.google.com/books?id=2-XiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=What+are+the+Rockmart+Slate+Folds+used+for&source=bl&ots=03fpvhE2hf&sig=yCloMUFEhuma5Yic8JD6y0DXcXs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TrxdUq3cEomS9QT-pIC4DA&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=true
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What it is used for was found at http://books.google.com/books?id=2-XiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=What+are+the+Rockmart+Slate+Folds+used+for&source=bl&ots=03fpvhE2hf&sig=yCloMUFEhuma5Yic8JD6y0DXcXs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TrxdUq3cEomS9QT-pIC4DA&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=true
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