Discuss the suite of sedimentary rocks that forms on a passive margin with increasing distance and water depth from
the shoreline. What will be an ideal response?
Sandstone-carbonate-shale assemblages form on passive continental margins. Passive margin
deposits are rare or absent in Archean rocks, but they become common during the
Proterozoic and thereafter. Sandstones form close to shore, as a result of deposition, burial,
and cementation. Shales are deposited a bit further offshore and result from deposition of
suspended clay particles that float a greater distance from the shoreline.
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The rock assemblage of _______-_______-_______ represents the formation of a _______
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