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What is the settling out of sediments carried by water wind or ice to form sedimentary rocks?
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∙ 12y ago
It is called deposition.
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Why are the most common sedimentary rocks so common?
Common sedimentary rocks include sandstone, limestone, and shale. These rocks often start as sediments carried in rivers and deposited in lakes and oceans. When buried, the sediments lose water and become cemented to form rock.
Rocks formed from weathered debris from preexisisting rocks are called?
They are called clastic sedimentary rocks.
What rocks form from the sediments of the other rocks?
Sedimentary rocks.
What are angular sediments?
sedimentary rocks , rocks that rock.
What are rocks made from sediments called?
Sedimentary rocks.
What is the group of rocks that are formed from sediments?
sedimentary rocks
How are sedimentary rocks formed by?
by sediments
What kind of rock is formed form sediments?
Sedimentary rock.
What rocks are formed when sediments are compressed compacted and cemented togerther?
Sedimentary rocks.
What happens when rocks weathered?
When sedimentary rocks are weathered and eroded, they turn into sediments. And after compaction and cementation of the sediments, it will turn back into sedimentary rock.
All rocks are made of sediments?
Not all rocks are, only sedimentary rocks are truly made up of sediments. Some metamorphic rocks do because they are formed when heat and pressure are applied to sedimentary rocks, which makes sediments the basis of these rocks as well
What rocks are sedimentary rocks made from?
Sedimentary rocks can be made from any kind of material, from other rocks to shells to fossils. Basically, any rock, from metamorphic to igneous and even to sedimentary, can be weathered and eroded. These particles and grains can be carried great distances by wind, water, ants, etc. before they are lithified (cemented) back together to form sedimentary rocks.
