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A single bed of sedimentary rock usually of one type of material?
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A single layer with consistent characteristics is referred to as a stratum.
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What is the term for sedimentary rock that is composed of material evaporated for seawater?
A sedimentary rock that is composed of material evaporated from seawater is described as chemical.A sedimentary rock that is composed of material evaporated from seawater is described as chemical.
Can sedimentary rocks come from other sedimentary rocks?
Yes. Sedimentary rock can weather and form the material for new sedimentary rock.
What is the name of a sedimentary rock usually based on?
The name of sedimentary rock is usually based on it's grain size.
What are pieces of rock and organic material pressed together?
sedimentary rock
What is the cementing material between the grains in a sedimentary rock?
The cementing material could be calcite, clay minerals, iron minerals, or quartz in a clastic sedimentary rock.
Is conglomerate a igneous rock metamorphic rock or sedimentary rock?
A conglomerate rock is a heterogeneous material.
What is the term for sedimentary rock that is composed of material evaporated for seawater?
A sedimentary rock that is composed of material evaporated from seawater is described as chemical.A sedimentary rock that is composed of material evaporated from seawater is described as chemical.
Can sedimentary rocks come from other sedimentary rocks?
Yes. Sedimentary rock can weather and form the material for new sedimentary rock.
What is the name of a sedimentary rock usually based on?
The name of sedimentary rock is usually based on it's grain size.
What are pieces of rock and organic material pressed together?
sedimentary rock
What is the cementing material between the grains in a sedimentary rock?
The cementing material could be calcite, clay minerals, iron minerals, or quartz in a clastic sedimentary rock.
Fossils are usually found in?
sedimentary rock
Why are fossils colored?
Fossils are usually found in sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rock derives its color from a variety of sources, but usually from the minerals which compose the rock.
What processes are involved with the formation of a sedimentary rock?
The two major processes involved in the formation of sedimentary rock include deposition (in which sedimentary material is deposited in an area) and cementation (in which that material becomes glued together overtime).
How is sedimentary rock destroyed?
Sedimentary rock becomes smaller and smaller due to physical and chemical weathering. Metamorphism and melt would also create new material from sedimentary rock.
Sedimentary rock that is formed from material that was once alive?
It is called an organic rock.
Why is radioactive dating not used on sedimentary raock?
Sedimentary rock is not original source material, its rock that got ground into sand, settled (usually under water), got buried, and then got heated and squeezed back into a form of rock. Lots of sources.
