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How can sedimentary rock be changed into a new sedimentary rock?
When a sedimentary rock is weathered or eroded, it becomes sediments, or small pieces of rock. Then the sediments are compacted together and they are formed into a new sedimentary rock. I hope my answer was helpful to you.
How are rocks and grains different?
rocks are formed from grains and grains are small and the rocks are big. Sedimentary rocks are formed when grains or sediments are compacted together.
How can a cliff can be turned into a layer of mudstone over millions of years?
Through the effects of weathering and the transportation of the resultant sediments by erosion to a place where the sediments are deposited in still waters or in land based sedimentary deposits where they are compacted and cemented together into a rock.
Are sedimentary rocks formed when sediments are compacted by extreme pressure?
Clastic and organic sedimentary rocks like conglomerate, coal, some limestones, and shale, are formed under pressure from overlying sediments.
How do fossil seashells get in sedimentary rock?
When an animal with a shell dies, its shell settles at the bottom of the body of water it lived in. Over time, the shell becomes buried with layer after layer of sediments. The sediments may become compacted and undergo the process of lithification, becoming rock.
What type of rocks are formed when sediments are compacted over time?
Rocks that are formed by layers of sediments that are compacted over time are appropriately named sedimentary rocks.
What is compacting rocks?
When rock compacts
What is a rock that forms when sediments are cemented or compacted together?
It is called sedimentary rock.
What is rock that forms when sediments are cemented or compacted together?
It is called sedimentary rock.
How do sediments change over time?
The get compacted with burial and dewater. The grains from which they are made become cemented together and the sediments become sedimentary rocks.
What type of sediments do you think would undergo more compaction grains of sand or grains of clay explain your choice?
Clay would get more compacted. This is because the grains are smaller and can fit closer together.
What are sedimentary rocks ad how are they formed?
Rocks made from sediments being compacted & cemented together.
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.
How do loose rock sediments form rocks?
If they are deposited, compacted, and cemented together, they form a sedimentary rock.
How are sediments joined up to form rocks?
Sediments produced from weathering and erosion are deposited in still environments, compacted by the weight of additional sediments and cemented by minerals that are present in the water that is being squeezed out between sediment particles.
When sediments land or settle?
They accumulate and gather up into thick layers, which with time get compacted and lithified to form sedimentary rock.
Is it true or false that metamorphic rock is rock that forms when sediments are compacted and cemented together?
False. The rock described is sedimentary rock.
