HIGH CALCIUM LIMESTONE and DOLOMITE in INDIANA by Scholarworks Iu Form

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you underneath every place on earth is rock at some places the rock is exposed on the Earth's surface at most places however the rock is covered by soil water or both soil and water even the soil is often hidden by forests farmers crops parking lots and buildings but if we dig deep enough we will find a layer of bedrock the layer of bedrock nearest the surface is very often sedimentary rock which means that it was formed from small particles that once settled at the bottom of a large body of water the smallest particles from clay and rotted plants became mud after the water drained off and more earth materials were deposited on top the pressure from their intense weight changed the mud to the sedimentary rock called shale particles of sand being larger and heavier separated from the clay particles when settling in prehistoric seeds layers of sand eventually became sandstone another kind of sedimentary rock in the same way that shale was formed in many of these water bodies lived plants