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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 08/31/2005 - 15:03.

Hi,
I am hoping someone here can help me with this - what does one call this type of rock? (see links for pics)

http://www.wiegand.org/gallery/index.php?id=104
http://www.wiegand.org/gallery/index.php?id=34
http://www.wiegand.org/gallery/index.php?id=36

When describing to my friends the areas I've been camping in I refer to this stuff as crumble rock, becuase I have no idea what else to call it. Can you help with this?

Thanks and regards,
Chip Wiegand

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Wed, 08/31/2005 - 18:48

Sorry I don't know nothing about the rocks but all the photos look good.
elliott

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Tue, 09/13/2005 - 04:33

Hi carvin5string,

Are you wanting to know the rock type or the kind of outcrop it occurs in? The rock looks like a sedimentary rock of some kind, but without a further description or photo, it's very difficult to tell.

If it's the kind of outcrop, then this is a scree slope.

Jon

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Tue, 09/13/2005 - 07:52

Definitely scree, although when I saw the first two photos I thought it might be quarry waste. Type of rock? Crumble rock sounds like a sandstone.

Gus

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Tue, 09/13/2005 - 17:52

Thanks for the replies. I'm not a rock-hound or anything like that, just a guy wondering what to call that broken-up rock I had to drive over.
Thanks.

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