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What is rock that are compacted and cemented together to form a solid rock?
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sedimentary rock.
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These rocks form from layers of materials that settle and are cemented together by pressure.?
Sedimentary
Forms as pieces of loose material get pressed or cemented together?
Sedimentary rocks form as pieces of loose material get pressed or cemented together. The process of forming sedimentary rocks is lithification.
What sedimantary rock made of?
Sedimentary rocks are made of various materials such as mineral fragments, organic matter, or chemical precipitates. These materials accumulate over time in layers and become compacted and cemented together to form rocks like sandstone, shale, or limestone.
How does a welded tuff differ from a cemented tuff?
Welded tuff is forms when the ash deposited is so hot that it is still partially molten. The still liquid component then cools, fusing the deposit into a single solid mass. Cemented tuff becomes bound together from processes similar to those that form ordinary sedimentary rocks. Grains are bound together under pressure as minerals dissolved in water crystallize.
What sedimentary rocks form when rocks broken down by weathering and erosion and then compacted together by pressure?
When sedimentary rocks break down and then are compacted by pressure, the resulting rock will be a metamorphic rock.
What is it called when rocks that are compacted and cemented together to form a solid rock?
sthgh
How do loose rock sediments form rocks?
If they are deposited, compacted, and cemented together, they form a sedimentary rock.
Process by which sediments are stuck together to form sedimentary rock?
The process of sediments being compacted and cemented to form sedimentary rocks is called lithification.
What must occur for sedimentary rock to form?
It must be exposed, weathered into smaller rock particles, transported by wind, water, ice, or gravity to a place of deposition, covered by additional sediments, compacted, and cemented together by minerals.
How sandstone shale and limestone form?
Limestones are form by precipitation of rusually under water Sandstones are formed from sendiments that are being eroded and compacted and cemented together. Shale are formed from precipation also but you often see fossil records on them.
What rocks form from layers of materials that settle and are cemented together by pressure?
Rocks formed from layers of materials that settle and get cemented together are Sedimentary Rocks.
How do sedimentary rocks get cemented together to form a solid mass from sediment?
This happens because the rock cycle keeps occuring and every time the rock cycle happens the sedimentary rock comes together better and will eventually be a solid mass of sediment
What type of rock can be cemented together to form sedimentary rock?
conglomerate
What do pieces of sediment that have been pressed and cemented together form?
Sedimentary rock.
These rocks form from layers of materials that settle and are cemented together by pressure.?
Sedimentary
Forms as pieces of loose material get pressed or cemented together?
Sedimentary rocks form as pieces of loose material get pressed or cemented together. The process of forming sedimentary rocks is lithification.
What happens to any rock in the rock cycle to form sedimentary rock?
In order to become a sedimentary rock a rock must be broken down or eroded by weathering. The sediments of the rock then go through the lithification process where they are cemented and compacted together forming a sedimentary rock.
