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What rock forms when sediment is transported and then compressed?
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igneous rock
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What must any rock in the rock cycle do to become a sedimentary rock?
It must erode into sediment and then be compressed to form sedimentary rock.
How are magma and sediment alike?
They are not alike: magma is the semi-molton rock layer that forms the mantle. Examples of sediment are the silt (mud) that has dropped out of water to settle on the bottom of rivers or sea; and layers of slate (compressed silt), limestone (the remains of microscopic shelled creatures) and sandstone (compressed sand grains).
Rocks that have layers or clasts were formed by what?
Is it sediment being compressed until it becomes rock
When seas or lakes evaporate what type of sediment rock forms?
evaporites
What is an object that forms when sediment fills a mold and becomes a rock?
It is a cast fossil.
Is a sediment and magma rock the same?
No. Sedimentary rock forms when broken bits of rock get compressed and cemented together. Igneous or "magma" rock forms when molten rock cools and solidifies, essentially freezing.
What became compressed to form limestone?
Sediment. Sediment is eroded igneous, metamorphic or other sedimentary rock. This is all part of the rock cycle.
What type of rock forms from layers of sediment?
Sedimentary rock.
What must any rock in the rock cycle do to become a sedimentary rock?
It must erode into sediment and then be compressed to form sedimentary rock.
How are magma and sediment alike?
They are not alike: magma is the semi-molton rock layer that forms the mantle. Examples of sediment are the silt (mud) that has dropped out of water to settle on the bottom of rivers or sea; and layers of slate (compressed silt), limestone (the remains of microscopic shelled creatures) and sandstone (compressed sand grains).
Rocks that have layers or clasts were formed by what?
Is it sediment being compressed until it becomes rock
Why does gravity cause layers of sediment to be horizontal?
As more sediment is added, it is compressed and hardens into rock layers.
Does sediment that is pushed underground forms sedimentary rock?
no they do not
What rock forms when sediment is squezed into layers by the weight of the rock above it?
Metamorphic rock.
What is a rock made of layers of sediment that have fused together?
it forms a sedimentary rock
What type of rock forms when sediment sticks together?
nothing
What forms as weather and erosion break down rock?
Sediment forms which may ultimately be deposited and lithify into sedimentary rock.
