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re: Now Closed: I'll answer any question you have about ROCKS!
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:40 pm to MapGuy
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:40 pm to MapGuy
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so a shale formation, is it actual rock?
Yes. Shale is a rock made of lithified silt and mud.
You can see really old shale in place in a lot of areas in the west around the foothills and hogbacks of the Rockies.
And of course, in core.
This post was edited on 7/10/14 at 3:42 pm
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Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:46 pm to Pectus
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You can see really old shale in place in a lot of areas in the west around the foothills and hogbacks of the Rockies.
Along the Front Range they are usually tilted, sometimes quite severely. As the granite that forms the Rockies was uplifted it pushed through the overlying sedimentary rock like a new tooth coming in. This caused the overlying rocks to fracture and tilt upwards in the direction of the mountains.
This of course is not shale but sandstone.
This post was edited on 7/10/14 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:49 pm to Pectus
Why are people always screaming about Cleveland rocks and why is Detroit "Rock City"?
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