Drag and drop the labels to solve three sedimentary rock "murder mysteries."

fingerprints and magnifying glass

The Evidence

The Victim

(Source Rock)

The Get-Away Car

(Type of Transport)

The Crime Scene

(Depositional Environment)

CASE 1. Cross-bedded quartz sandstone with rounded grains.

Grabbable 7 of 25.

Heavy chemical weathering

Grabbable 8 of 25.

Wind

Grabbable 9 of 25.

Desert

CASE 2. Conglomerate with imbricated well-rounded pebbles and cobbles in dark colours.

bomb
headstone saying "rest in pieces"
front view of a car

The Murder Weapon

(Type of Weathering)

theatre stage
Grabbable 16 of 25.

Physical weathering & weaker chemical weathering

Grabbable 17 of 25.

Fast-flowing and turbulent water

Grabbable 18 of 25.

Fluvial

CASE 3. Breccia with clasts made of carbonate rock.

Grabbable 20 of 25.

Limestone

Grabbable 21 of 25.

Physical weathering only

Grabbable 22 of 25.

Gravity (rock fall)

Grabbable 23 of 25.

Talus slope/ Alluvial

Grabbable 24 of 25.

Mafic igneous rock

Grabbable 25 of 25.

Granite

Dropzone 1 of 12.
Dropzone 2 of 12.
Dropzone 3 of 12.
Dropzone 4 of 12.
Dropzone 5 of 12.
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Dropzone 7 of 12.
Dropzone 8 of 12.
Dropzone 9 of 12.
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Dropzone 12 of 12.