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Clay minerals cement layers of sediment together to form what?
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What can pressure in cement layers of eroded sediment into rock?
DINGOES
The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together is called?
The process that presses sediments together is compaction. Thick layers of sediment build up gradually over millions of years. These heavy layers press down on the layers beneath them. The weight of new layers further compacts the sediments, squeezing them tightly together. The layers often remain invisible in sedimentary rock.
What is a rock made of layers that are cemented together?
Layers of sediment which have undergone lithification are called sedimentary rock.
When layers of sediment are squeezed together to form rocks it is called?
It is called sedimentary rock.
What processes turn sediment into sedimentary rock?
The processes of compaction and cementation of this sediment over a long period of time turn the sediment into rock.
What can pressure in cement layers of eroded sediment into rock?
DINGOES
How do layers change into rocks?
Sediment layers are squeezed from above by the weight of overlying sediment, causing compaction. Compaction squeezes out air and water between the sediment particles. Minerals form as the air and water is squeezed out, cementing the particles together, and forming sedimentary rock.
How do rock layers change?
Sediment layers are squeezed from above by the weight of overlying sediment, causing compaction. Compaction squeezes out air and water between the sediment particles. Minerals form as the air and water is squeezed out, cementing the particles together, and forming sedimentary rock.
The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together is called?
The process that presses sediments together is compaction. Thick layers of sediment build up gradually over millions of years. These heavy layers press down on the layers beneath them. The weight of new layers further compacts the sediments, squeezing them tightly together. The layers often remain invisible in sedimentary rock.
What is a rock made of layers of sediment that have fused together?
it forms a sedimentary rock
What is a rock made of layers that are cemented together?
Layers of sediment which have undergone lithification are called sedimentary rock.
When layers of sediment are squeezed together to form rocks it is called?
It is called sedimentary rock.
what happens when sediments builds over time?
everyone will die
Sediment forms layers pressure from water and top layers over thousands of years cause lower layers to stick together and to form what?
Sedimentary rocks
What layers of small sediments stick together because when pressure occurs?
When layers of small sediments stick together because of pressure, compaction occurs. :)
How does igneous rock turn into sedimentary rock?
It becomes weathered and eroded to a residue called "regolith", consisting of sand and the clay-forming minerals. These are washed by rivers to the sea or lake beds, settle on the bottom and eventually their own weight compresses the deposit, squeezing out the water. Dissolved minerals precipitate out to cement the grains together, and there we have a new sedimentary rock.
What is the correct order of fossilization?
organism dies sediments make layers buried in sediment erosion exposes fossils minerals replace bone and shell
