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What type of rock is made of hardened sediment?
Sandstone, claystone, limestone, or various other type of sedimentary rocks. That answer is WAY wrong the correct answer would be a sedimentary rock.
The type rock made of harden sediment is called?
The type of rock made of hardened sediment is called sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rocks are formed through the accumulation and compression of sediments such as sand, silt, and clay over time. Examples of sedimentary rocks include sandstone, shale, and limestone.
Rock type that is formed when sediment is lithified?
Sedimentary rock can be formed from lithified sediments.
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
What does hardened layers of sediments form?
A sedimentary rock
Why is a sedimentary rock called a sedimentary rock?
Because it was originally a sediment, such as sand or mud, but was then lithified into a rock.
What can transform igneous rock into sedimentary rock?
Igneous rock can become sedimentary if it is weathered into sediment and then lithified.
Can a sedimentary rock turn back into a deposit of sediment?
Yes! The process of weathering can "break down" a sedimentary rock and turn it back into a sediment.
What removes water from sediment to form sedimentary rock?
Evaporation removes water from sediment to form sedimentary rock. When water evaporates everything that was in the water dries out. The evaporation of water from sediment takes a very long time to form sedimentary rock.
What happens to sediment as it change to sedimentary rock?
Erosion deposits sediment.
Why was sedimentary rock named sedimentary rock?
Because the rocks are formed by using layers of Sediment.
What type of rock forms from layers of sediment?
Sedimentary rock.
