1 Sapphire blue is a cool color. 2  Sapphire carries the blue symbolism of importance and confidence. 3  Although it's not a light or pastel blue, it still has something of a fresh, spring-like quality with a touch of childlike playfulness.
Sedimentary rocks make up only 5% (by volume) of the upper 10 miles of the crust, but about 75% of the outcrops on the continents. Two primary types of sedimentary rocks: 1  Chemical-precipitate from solution (e.g., limestone); most important constituents are calcite, dolomite, chalcedony (SiO2), gypsum, and halite.2  Chemical sedimentary rocks can be further divided as to: 3  inorganic (e.g., limestone, rock salt, dolomite). Chemical-precipitate from solution (e.g., limestone); most important constituents are calcite, dolomite, chalcedony (SiO2), gypsum, and halite. 2  Chemical sedimentary rocks can be further divided as to: 3  inorganic (e.g., limestone, rock salt, dolomite). 4  organic (e.g., limestone or coal).
Most sedimentary rocks contain either quartz (especially siliciclastic rocks) or calcite (especially carbonate rocks). In contrast to igneous and metamorphic rocks, a sedimentary rock usually contains very few different major minerals.inerals in a sedimentary rock can have formed by precipitation during sedimentation or by diagenesis. In the second case, the mineral precipitate can have grown over an older generation of cement. A complex diagenetic history can be studied by optical mineralogy, using a petrographic microscope.