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What types of minerals are clastic sedimentary rocks made of?
Clastic sedimentary rocks are made of broken pieces of preexisting rock that are compacted together. The mineral quartz makes up sixty percent of the clastic sedimentary rocks.
What makes up about 95 percent of the rocks in earths crust?
Igneous and metamorphic rock make up 95% of the rocks in Earth's crust. Only a thin layer is made up of sedimentary rock.
Facts about sedimentary rocks?
95or all fossils found. Sedimentary rock makes up ¾ of the earth's surface.
What type of rock is formed from particles or dissolved minerals from previously existing rocks?
The rock described would be a clastic sedimentary rock.
Rocks formed from weathered debris from preexisisting rocks are called?
They are called clastic sedimentary rocks.
What rock formed in layers?
sedimentary rock
What type of rocks cannot turn into sedimentary rocks?
No rock. Any rock can turn into sedimentary rock, such as granite (igneous rock) and slate (metamorphic rock). Even sedimentary rock can turn into other sedimentary rock.
Can sedimentary rocks come from other sedimentary rocks?
Yes, through the process of erosion, transportation, deposition, and lithification, sediments from existing sedimentary rocks can be weathered and broken down to form new sedimentary rocks. The cycle of sedimentary rock formation can involve the breakdown and reformation of older sedimentary rocks.
What is required to change an igneous rock into a sedimentary rock?
Igneous rocks are a "finished product". They do not become sedimentary rock - though sedimentary rocks, with heat and pressure can become metamorphic rocks.
What makes sedimentary rocks especially useful to scientists and historians?
Sedimentary rock are made of materials that could show what lived where. Also they are the only rock to hold fossils.
What are the main things about sedimentary rock?
Usually, sometimes sedimentary rocks can be found creating on the side of pool's. And even though sedimentary rock is small, they can be used for big thing. Like houses, or even sculptures. 6 billion years ago when the earth was forming there were no Sedimentary rocks, as well as metamorphic, but there were igneous rocks. It was 3.9 billion years ago when the first sedimentary rocks began to appear!
Which type of rock is where fossils are found?
They are mostly found in Sedimentary Rocks
