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If water is depleted from an aquifer faster than the recharge rate,
 
  A) the water table will rise.
  B) surface water will stop percolating downward.
  C) wetlands will flood.
  D) sinkholes may form.

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List the most common biogenic and chemical sedimentary rock types, and describe the depositional environments that favor deposition of each sediment type.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

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Limestone is made of inorganic and organic (skeletal) calcite. Chert is composed of inorganic and organic (skeletal) quartz. Dolostone is composed of calcite in which Mg2+ is substituted for Ca2+, often through interaction of groundwater with limestone. Evaporites such as halite and gypsum form in evaporative environments such as lagoon or desert lakes. Coal is formed from thick accumulations of organic matter that occurs in swamps.





 

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