What Does a Sand That Contains Significant Amounts of Sand-Sized

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Multiple Choice

What does a sand that contains significant amounts of sand-sized rock fragments, blocky feldspar, and angular prismatic grains of ferromagnesian minerals suggest?

• A)that it has travelled a short distance and was likely deposited very close to the source of the particles
• B)that it has travelled a great distance in a uniform flow or has had more than one cycle of weathering, transport, and deposition.
• C)that it had a very low velocity of transport and likely a shallow stream gradient
• D)that it was derived from uplifted and eroded older sedimentary rocks

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