Chapter 5 (Sedimentary Rocks) (1) List the characteristics that distinguish sedimentary rocks from igneous and metamorphic rocks. (7) How do evaporites form? How are they different from clastic sedimentary rocks? (10) What rock types form in the following sedimentary systems: (a) delta, (b) lagoon, (c) alluvial fan, (d) eolian, (e) organic reef, and (f) deep marine? (11) How does plate tectonics control the character of sedimentary rocks deposited on a continental margin that is far from a modern plate boundary? (12) How does a transgression followed by a regression of the sea produce the vertical sequence sandstone, shale, limestone, shale, sandstone?.