Expert: Keith Patton - 10/20/2009

Question
please give me the classification %26 environments of sedimentary rocks? in PDF file?

Answer
I assume you mean depostiional environments?

There are numerous ones and some are shades of gray, as they produce similar rocks and only a petrological analysis can tell them apart if the rocks are not see in their natural place of depostition...in out crop that is.

Sandstone:   Near shore Marine: beach, or sand dune, or barrier island; Desert: dunes, sheet fans;  Fluvial: point bar sands and channel sand bars;  Glacial: Esker, Kame and outwash deposits

Shale:   Near shore Marine: lagoon, deltaic fan, near shore shallow water.  Fluvial: overbank/levee splay deposits (where flood waters deposit mud)  Deep water marine: Turbidites or mudslides. Glacial: outwash deposits

Conglomerate:  Fluvial: high energy stream deposits, Near shore Marine: coarse turbidites or melange deposites. Glacial: Moraine deposits; Desert: alluvial fan depsites and talus slopes.

Siltstone:  Fluvial: levee overwash or splay deposits; Glacial: outwash and moraine deposits
Desert: Alluvial fan deposits.

Limestones:  Marine:  Deep water abyssal plain deposits, shallow sea deposition of benthonic faunal remains and reef deposits.
Fluvial: travertine deposition in karst regions where ground water emerges laden with dissolved calcium carbonate which percipitates out at the surface. Desert:  Playa evaporites and limes.

Evaporites: Marine:  Silled basin deposition in evaporating shallow seas.  Desert:  Playa deposition in dried lakes.