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Shale, Pleistocene

Picture Gallery of Sedimentary Rocks

By Andrew Alden, About.com Guide

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This young mudstone at San Francisco's Ocean Beach is so soft a fingernail can dig into it. It is part of the Merced Formation, of Pleistocene age.

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