There are organic rocks, like Limestone, and clastic (composed of fragments), like Sandstone. Within these groups there are others, like coal is organic and siltstone is clastic, but even within limestone and sandstone, there are further categories. There's oolitic limestone, chalk and 'shelly' limestones; and arkose, desert sandstone, orthoquartzite (generic sandstone), and others. Conglomerate is an interesting one, if you are after a rock that is not 'normal'.
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.
Sedimentary rock.
Sediments.
sediments
Pressure of water and other sediments.
The sediments made of the metamorphic rock would turn into sedimentary rock.
Weathering and ErosionDepositionCompactionLithificationCementationThose are the five steps for an igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock!
Sedimentary rock is so named because it is formed from sediments. The sediments could be particles of rock, sand, minerals, or organic material.
The Earth's crust is solid, consisting of rock, soil, and sediments.
the shape and size of sediments.
If the sediments become cemented, a sedimentary rock will be formed. Sedimentary rocks are created through the processes of weathering, erosion, deposition, and lithification, which involve the accumulation of sediments that are cemented together over time.
Sedimentary rock.