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Sediments are made when weathering pushes down on sedimentary rocks and sediments are formed some people think it is weathering and erosion, but it is just weathering.
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What is the rock that is made from erosion and deposition of sediments?
sedimentary rock
Dissolved minerals cement sediments together what kind of rock?
limestone, it's made of compreessed shells in the ocean.
What is the difference between sediments in the outwash and sediments in the moraines?
Sediments that are in outwash are sorted sediments, organized by size, while sediments that are in moraine are unsorted.
What are three things that the sediments in sedimentary rocks may be made of?
quartz, garnet and rutile.
What is deposition in weathering?
The dropping of the sediments or DEPOSITING the sediments
What is made when sediments fill in a cavity made when an object decayed and the sediments harden into rock?
Cast.
Sediments made from microscopic shells that settle to the bottom when the organisms that produced them die are called?
Biogeneous sediments
Is sandstone made up of the smallest sediments?
no
What is earths sedimentary rock made of?
Sediments
What rocks is made of the smallest sediments?
sandstone
Which rocks are made of the smallest sediments?
Shale
What rock is made from the smallest sediments?
Shale
What do sediments and beaches have in common?
well, beaches are made of sediments and both are rocks broken down into smaller pieces
Is made of sediments an igneous rock characteristics?
No, rocks made of sediments are called sedimentary rocks. Igneous rock comes from volcanic activity -- lava and the like.
Rock that is made up of pebbles cemented together with other sediments?
Pebble conglomerate is rock that is made up of pebbles cemented together with other sediments.
A river system is made up of a river and its?
sediments
What are rocks made from sediments called?
Sedimentary rocks.
