Sediment Identification

Useful Links:

An amazing collection of microscope images of sand samples from all over the world:
Sands from around the world

Image galleries from MIT's OpenCourseWare site for Sedimentary Geology:
Sediment Types, Mechanical and Chemical Weathering, Lithification
Siliciclastic Rocks

From the Santa Barbara City College self-study Marine Science Course
Marine Geology: The Bottom of the Ocean

From a microscope resource site, images of different types of sand
Sand Analysis

Radiolaria.org is an online database containing information about radiolarians

The National Collection of Foraminifera (and other microfossils) from the Smithsonian Institution

Diatom Home Page, from Indiana University

Tips on identifying carbonate sediments, from the University of Puerto Rico.

For those of us who are artistically challenged, page 4 of this PDF file has nice sketches of halimeda, penicillus, rhipocephalus, and udotea, suitable for adding to your lab notes. http://mscserver.cox.miami.edu/MSC111/Labs/Lab09.pdf

Images

Image from the "Sands from around the world" page. This is Isla Culebra, Playa Tortuga, Puerto Rico.

Images from a stock photo site

I believe this is sand from a beach in Arcadia, Maine. The original page was in Chinese, however, so I could be wrong.

Sand particles

Radiolaria

This is a Halloween costume