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    USGS Swatches Reference

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    The document provides a list of 686 geological terms organized into numbered categories. The terms describe various rock and sediment types including gravel, sandstone, shale, limestone, dolostone, chert, coal, and igneous rocks. The list also includes terms related to metamorphism, volcanic rocks, and unconsolidated sediments.

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    The document provides a list of 686 geological terms organized into numbered categories. The terms describe various rock and sediment types including gravel, sandstone, shale, limestone, dolostone, chert, coal, and igneous rocks. The list also includes terms related to metamorphism, volcanic rocks, and unconsolidated sediments.

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    The document provides a list of 686 geological terms organized into numbered categories. The terms describe various rock and sediment types including gravel, sandstone, shale, limestone, dolostone, chert, coal, and igneous rocks. The list also includes terms related to metamorphism, volcanic rocks, and unconsolidated sediments.

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    The document provides a list of 686 geological terms organized into numbered categories. The terms describe various rock and sediment types including gravel, sandstone, shale, limestone, dolostone, chert, coal, and igneous rocks. The list also includes terms related to metamorphism, volcanic rocks, and unconsolidated sediments.

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    601 602 603 605 606 607 608

    Gravel or Gravel or Crossbedded gravel Breccia (1st option) Breccia (2nd option) Massive sand or Bedded sand or
    conglomerate conglomerate or conglomerate sandstone sandstone
    (1st option) (2nd option)

    609 610 611 612 613 614 616


    Crossbedded sand Crossbedded sand Ripple-bedded sand Argillaceous or Calcareous Dolomitic Silt, siltstone,
    or sandstone or sandstone or sandstone shaly sandstone sandstone sandstone or shaly silt
    (1st option) (2nd option)

    617 618 619 620 621 622 623


    Calcareous Dolomitic Sandy or silty Clay or clay Cherty shale Dolomitic shale Calcareous shale
    siltstone siltstone shale shale or marl

    624 625 626 627 628 629 630


    Carbonaceous Oil shale Chalk Limestone Clastic Fossiliferous clastic Nodular or irregularly
    shale limestone limestone bedded limestone

    631 632 633 634 635 636 637


    Limestone, irregular Crossbedded Cherty crossbedded Cherty and sandy Oolitic Sandy limestone Silty limestone
    (burrow?) fillings of limestone limestone crossbedded limestone
    saccharoidal dolomite clastic limestone

    638 639 640 641 642 643 644


    Argillaceous or Cherty limestone Cherty limestone Dolomitic limestone, Dolostone or Crossbedded Oolitic dolostone
    shaly limestone (1st option) (2nd option) limy dolostone, or dolomite dolostone or or dolomite
    limy dolomite dolomite
    645 646 647 648 649 650 651
    Sandy dolostone Silty dolostone Argillaceous or Cherty dolostone Bedded chert Bedded chert Fossiliferous
    or dolomite or dolomite shaly dolostone or dolomite (1st option) (2nd option) bedded chert
    or dolomite

    652 653 654 655 656 657 658


    Fossiliferous rock Diatomaceous Subgraywacke Crossbedded Ripple-bedded Peat Coal
    rock subgraywacke subgraywacke

    659 660 661 662 663 664 665


    Bony coal or Underclay Flint clay Bentonite Glauconite Limonite Siderite
    impure coal

    666 667 668 669 670 671 672


    Phosphatic-nodular Gypsum Salt Interbedded Interbedded Interbedded ripple- Interbedded shale
    rock sandstone and sandstone and bedded sandstone and silty limestone
    siltstone shale and shale (shale dominant)

    673 674 675 676 677 678 679


    Interbedded shale Interbedded shale Interbedded calc- Interbedded Interbedded Interbedded Interbedded
    and limestone and limestone areous shale and silty limestone limestone and limestone and limestone and shale
    (shale dominant) (shale dominant) limestone (shale and shale shale (1st option) shale (2nd option) (limestone dominant)
    (1st option) (2nd option) dominant)

    680 681 682 683 684 685 686


    Interbedded Till or diamicton Till or diamicton Till or diamicton Loess (1st option) Loess (2nd option) Loess (3rd option)
    limestone and (1st option) (2nd option) (3rd option)
    calcareous shale
    701 702 703 704 705 706
    Metamorphism Quartzite Slate Schistose or Schist Contorted schist
    gneissoid granite

    707 708 709 710


    Schist and gneiss Gneiss Contorted gneiss Soapstone, talc,
    or serpentinite

    711 712 713 714 715 716


    Tuffaceous rock Crystal tuff Devitrified Volcanic breccia Volcanic breccia Zeolitic rock
    tuff and tuff or agglomerate

    717 718 719 720 721 722


    Basaltic flows Granite (1st option) Granite (2nd option) Banded Igneous rock Igneous rock
    igneous rock (1st option) (2nd option)

    723 724 725 726 727 728


    Igneous rock Igneous rock Igneous rock Igneous rock Igneous rock Igneous rock
    (3rd option) (4th option) (5th option) (6th option) (7th option) (8th option)

    729 730 731 732 733


    Porphyritic rock Porphyritic rock Vitrophyre Quartz Ore
    (1st option) (2nd option)

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