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Coquina
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Banded iron formation
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Coquina is a sedimentary rock that is composed either wholly or almost entirely of the transported, abraded, and mechanically-sorted fragments of the shells of molluscs, trilobites, brachiopods, or other invertebrates
European Foreland Basins
Unknown
From Concha (Latin)+ Coquina(Spanish) +conch(English)= Couquina (mid 19th century)
Sedimentary Rocks
Durable Rock, Soft Rock
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Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
 
Banded iron formation are distinctive units of sedimentary rock that are almost always of Precambrian age
Western Australia, Minnesota
Johann Gottlob Lehmann
From its formation process
Sedimentary Rocks
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
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Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock