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Howard >> What about all that mud…and all the salt in the oceans? I don't think there is any "missing" material that needs to be explained away.<< OK I'll buy that the muds clays and dirts could be parts of the original mountains that wore away for tour of the thought. >>The ultimate origin of all clastic sedimentary rocks is igneous and metamorphic rocks–granites, lavas, gneisses, etc.<< If you take an original granite for example and take away all but the quartz groups you end up with multiple colored grains as a majority of the crystals. The individual grains are even varied in color. The whole is a wide range of colors as well as some range in crystal size within a sample. You sort this pile of multi size and multi colored grains by wind and water and you should get piles of various colored grains sorted by size shape and density. However we have deposits sorted by colors also how? Sand deposits along the great fractures systems are present in various sizes and colors mixed with virgin gravels of all sizes and colors. How do you account for this mix? Kamron