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What is the process in which minerals precipitate into pore spaces between sediment grains and bind sediments together to form rock?
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a.cementation
b.compaction
c.conglomerate
d.weathering
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Sediment in water often become solid rock when?
When it is deposited, covered by additional sediments, compressed, and cemented together by minerals.
The process in which the weight of sediment above squashes together the sediments below?
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What must happen to metamorphic rock to become sedimentary rock?
The rock is eroded or weathered away into sediments. The sediments settle and through compaction , the sediments are pushed together to form a sediment. Short Answer: It must be broken down into a sediment.
What is compaction and cementation?
Compaction does not necessarily cause materials to stick together. Cementation is more like having a binding material between the layers. Even compaction CAN result in binding together of materials such as sandstone.
Sediments are glued together by minerals?
The process is called cementation.
Sediment in water often become solid rock when?
When it is deposited, covered by additional sediments, compressed, and cemented together by minerals.
The process by which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together into one mass?
The particles in the sediments are cemented as pressure squeezes out water. The dissolved minerals in the water, usually silica or calcite, then become solid (crystallize), tying the particles together.
The process in which the weight of sediment above squashes together the sediments below?
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What is the process where sediments are glued together by minerals?
Cementation
What must happen to metamorphic rock to become sedimentary rock?
The rock is eroded or weathered away into sediments. The sediments settle and through compaction , the sediments are pushed together to form a sediment. Short Answer: It must be broken down into a sediment.
What is compaction and cementation?
Compaction does not necessarily cause materials to stick together. Cementation is more like having a binding material between the layers. Even compaction CAN result in binding together of materials such as sandstone.
What is cenmentation?
Cementation is when minerals crystallize and glue the sediments together
What dissolves minerals glue sediments together?
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Sediments are glued together by minerals?
The process is called cementation.
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 does sediment consist of?
In essence, yes. It is made out of sediments which bond together due to chemical reactions
Why is burial usually necessary to turn a sediment into a sedimentary rock?
The key to converting sediment into sedimentary rock is often though of as being pressure. And it is only by burial that enough pressure can be generated on a layer of sediment to "press" it into sedimentary rock. With pressure and time comes what is called compaction and the expulsion of (most of) the space between the particles of sediment that were deposited. Let's look at sediments being laid down and turned into sedimentary rock.When sediments are created, moved and deposited, they can consolidate and form a layer or layers. These strata will be composed of particles of organic and inorganic material. Included will be the intersticial spaces between the sediments. Any water present in the pore spaces (and there usually is) will bring with it dissolved minerals. These can precipitate out in the spaces, and will cause cementation, which is the binding of these minerals to the particles of sediment and the "sticking together" of the sediments. Following the deposition of more material, pressure (lithostatic pressure) will build on the underlying strata. The compaction forces the layer to become more dense and to "turn to stone" over time. And sedimentary rock is the result of this process.
