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Biochemical sedimentary rocks.
Biochemical sedimentary rocks.
Yes, sedimentary rocks can form through chemical processes. One example is the precipitation of minerals from solution, which occurs when dissolved ions in water bond together to form solid minerals. Another example is chemical weathering, where minerals in rocks are dissolved or altered by chemical reactions, leading to the formation of new minerals.
Non-clastic rocks
Sedimentary rocks can be found anywhere rock particles, clay, and organic matter has deposited itself and lithified from overburden pressure or chemical precipitation from a saturated solution. Sedimentary rock covers 75% of the surface of the Earth's continents.
Sedimentary rocks are broken into two classes: clasticand chemical. Clastic sedimentary rocks are composed of rock particles, and chemical sedimentary rocks are composed of precipitation of minerals in solution.
Chemical sedimentary rocks precipitate from solution. Organic is a subsection of chemical and includes limestone and coal, detrital, or clastic, are detritus, or fragments, of other rocks (e.g., sandstone). ChaCha on!
Chemical
sedimentary rock that forms when minerals crystallize from a solution
These minerals are called evaporites.
Sedimentary rocks can be found anywhere rock particles, clay, and organic matter has deposited itself and lithified from overburden pressure or chemical precipitation from a saturated solution. Sedimentary rock covers 75% of the surface of the Earth's continents.
They would be referred to as chemical sedimentary rock.