siltstone - tan siltstone from the Temblor Fm - teaching hand specimen

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Siltstone from the Round Mountain Silt member of the Temblor Formation - Middle Miocene - teaching hand specimen
The Round Mountain Silt is famous for the now-national-landmark Sharktooth Hill fossil collecting locality. Siltstone fits between shale and sandstone in a classification of sedimentary rocks by grain size. Siltstones have a range of grain sizes as well, with this one being close to the finer-grained end of the siltstone spectrum.
The farther a sediment is transported, the smaller and rounder its grains become. Finer grained sediments take longer to settle out of the water column and are deposited farther from a shoreline in deeper water. This siltstone is marine and some specimens are fossiliferous with small clams. Their delicate shells confirm that this is a deep water sediment, as the shells are too fragile to withstand the high energy near-shore environment.
These specimens were collected from outcrops along the south edge of the floodplain of the Kern River in Kern County, California. They will withstand student examination without crumbling.
These specimens will fit into a 3.5” x 5.25" specimen tray. We include data with every specimen: collecting locality for mineral specimens and for rocks also the formation and age, if determined.
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