Need help identifying sedimentary rock with fossils from Soap lake area washington state, have pictures?

They're gastropods, and yep it looks pretty calcareous, maybe dolomitey? All consistent with a freshwater environment but not 100% necessarily. Their looks to be some bedding preserved in the top corner of your third photo doesn't there. So some energy moving stuff around, at least then. Elsewhere, burrowing before cementation or recrystallising carbonate may have destroyed any bedding, or maybe it was just deposited very quickly. Be careful that the dolomite clasts really are part of the original rock - I mean that they haven't fallen down the cliff face and been recrystallised on the surface. But your hand specimen looks pretty convincing.

Don't know if I would call it a conglomerate with that few clasts (don't worry about the fossils when deciding if it is a conglomerate - it only refers to the lithic parts of the the rock). But not sure what the official cut-off is, if there is one.

Don't forget, their might be a time gap between the whitish rocks and the basalt (or the whole lot might even be overturned). The contact between the two types of rocks might give you a clue about a possible time gap. Also, lava entering the sea or a lake produces some fairly characteristic shapes, like pillow basalts and cones.

Great Pictures! This is beach rock, a leached limestone deposit with marine gastropod fossils. The inclusion of basalt, or an interface with basalt, suggests a pretty interesting geologic history. At least some of the later basalts have overlapped this beach rock. Nice job!!

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the rock in your photos are popcorn line stone it is formed by calcite which has been reformed with volcanic acid which is why it looks the way it does. I hope I'm right, I've been out of school for a while