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The weathering, erosion, and deposition of the rock rhyolite could result in the compaction and cementation into sedimentary rock of different types: breccia, conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone, or shale. Which type depends on the degree of weathering and the distance from the point of origin of the original rhyolite.
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What causes rock to become sediment?
Igneous rock becomes sediment due to exposure to chemical and mechanical weathering at or near the surface.
Rocks that have layers or clasts were formed by what?
Is it sediment being compressed until it becomes rock
What is an object that forms when sediment fills a mold and becomes a rock?
It is a cast fossil.
What are rock composed of weathered rocks called?
sediment
What is the percentage of empty volume in a rock or sediment called?
It is called its porosity.
Packed down as in sediment that becomes rock?
Compacted
What happen to the sediment during deposition?
Becomes rock
What causes rock to become sediment?
Igneous rock becomes sediment due to exposure to chemical and mechanical weathering at or near the surface.
During loose sediment becomes sedimentary rock?
lithification
What are the rock and soil deposits by streams called?
Sediment
When sediment fills a mold and becomes rock a blank is created?
cast
What process happens when sediment fills a mold and becomes rock?
Lithification.
How can sedimentary rock becomes a metamorphic rock?
When the metamorphic rock breaks down into sediment. Thus, making the new rock sedimentary because when sediment forms together over time it makes it sedimentary rock
Rocks that have layers or clasts were formed by what?
Is it sediment being compressed until it becomes rock
What is an object that forms when sediment fills a mold and becomes a rock?
It is a cast fossil.
What is the rock and soil deposited by streams called?
Sediment
What are rock composed of weathered rocks called?
sediment
