Materials

Sandstone

Sedimentary Rock

Citation Formats

General Reference

Earth and Environment Atlas. "Sandstone." Accessed August 29, 2026. https://dev-earth.interactiveatlas.org/materials/sandstone.

APA Style

Earth and Environment Atlas. (n.d.). Sandstone. Retrieved August 29, 2026, from https://dev-earth.interactiveatlas.org/materials/sandstone

BibTeX

@misc{earthandenvironmentatlas-sandstone,
  author = {Earth and Environment Atlas},
  title = {Sandstone},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-earth.interactiveatlas.org/materials/sandstone},
  note = {Accessed August 29, 2026}
}

A sedimentary rock formed from cemented, sand sized mineral grains, most often quartz, laid down by wind or water and compacted into layers that record the direction the sediment once moved.

Facts

Kind

Rock 1

Formation Class

Sedimentary, clastic 2

Cross-Tradition Connections

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Geology

Source Rock, Geology (Wikipedia)

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1. Rock, Geology (Wikipedia)

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2. Sandstone (Wikipedia)

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Quote, Lead section

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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