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What is it called when rock families are formed from the compression of sediments?
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Rock families formed from the compression of sediments are called?
sedimentary rocks
What you called the land that is formed by sediments where river empties into a lake?
It is called a River Delta.
What are bits of sand and rock and soil formed by weathering called?
Sediments.
Upward fold in rock formed by compression called?
Anticline
Sediments form a where the river meets the ocean?
The sediments are called silt or alluvium. The land formed from these sedimants where the river meets the ocean is a delta.
What kind of rock is formed form sediments?
Sedimentary rock.
What is hydrogenous sediment?
Hydrogenous sediments are formed when minerals precipitate from the ocean, or they can be formed when minerals in the water react with older sediments.
How are sediments formed?
Sediments are formed from the weathering and erosion of Earth materials. Sediments can be organic, but most are inorganic; their source being a body of rock.from metamorphic rockerosion/weatheringsorry idk
How do hydrogenous sediments form?
Along which coast is Thorium found in abundance?
How are sedimentary rocks formed by?
by sediments
Type of rockformed from sediments called?
A rock formed for sedimentary deposits is called a sedimentary rock. A sedimentary rock which has then undergone metamorphism is called a meta-sediment.
What is a soil formed by?
Windblown glacial sediments.
