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Explain how transport effects the degree of rounding in individual sediment grains. What can be determined by a sediment that consists mostly of angular grains? How does the hardness of a mineral control rounding? Lastly, how would you expect the mineral composition of a sediment produced from a granite source to evolve as it is transported throghout the environment?

 

 

 

 

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