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How can you distinguish a clastic sedimentary rock from a crystalline formed sedimentary rock?

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: A clastic sedimentary rock will be full of... clasts. Pieces of shells, ooids, pizoids, etc. A chemically formed sedimentary rock may have these but it will dominantly be a layered rock, you should be able to see concentric layers
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