quartz (mono- and polycrystalline), glauconite (up to 50% and often (partially) altered to iron(hydr)oxides); cement of iron(hydr)oxides; high intergranular porosity (dependent on the level of cementation)
Texture
fine to coarse grain size; poorly sorted; sub-angular quartz and rounded glauconite grains; mineral grains often fractured
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