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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 processes can cause rock to breakapart into sediment?
Older layerscan become compacted
What step of the rock cycle creates the sediment from which sedimentary rock is formed?
Weathering and erosion.
What step in the rock cycle creates the sediment form which sedimentary rock is formed?
erosion
Why do rock and not fossils form sedimentary rock and not igneous rock?
Because sedimentery rock is formed under the sea, sediment collects at the bottom of the ocean, and so does a few dead sea creatures, then t gets squashed by other sediment, igneous rock is formed by lava cooling, so there is no fossils in it.
What is the external processes of rock cycle?
The external processes are in charge for transforming solid rock into sediment.
What processes turn rock into sediment?
Weathering and erosion produces and transports sediment.
What processes turn sediment rock?
Weathering and erosion produces and transports sediment.
Lithified detritus forms which kind of sedimentary rock?
When rock sediment is lithified, a sedimentary rock is formed. The two processes involved in lithification are compaction and cementation.
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.
Rock type that is formed when sediment is lithified?
Sedimentary rock can be formed from lithified sediments.
What rock is formed by chemical sediment?
Gypsum
What processes can transform metamorphic rock into sediment?
weathering and erosion
What 2 processes that cause sediment to be lithified into solid sedimentary rock?
Lithification refers to the process of turning sediments into rock. The 2 processes that cause sediment to be lithified into solid sedimentary rock are compaction and cementation.
When sediment is deposited in layers what rock is formed?
sedimentary
What types of rock are formed by weathering?
sediment
How does rock's form?
Rock forms through three processes. Sedimentary rocks are formed by the compression of sediment. Igneous rocks are formed when magma crystallizes after melting. Metamorphic rocks are sedimentary and igneous rocks that have been subjected to pressure and heat .
