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What term describes the remains of impressions of plants and animals in sedimentary rock?
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What sedimentary rocks are formed from the remains of plants and animals?
Organic Sedimentary Rocks are formed from remains of plants and animals.
What are the remains of plants and animals that have been preserved in sedimentary rock?
FOSSILS
What Are Chemically Formed Sedimentary Rocks Formed From?
Chemically formed sedimentary rocks are formed from dead remains of plants and animals that is from an organic sediment.
Why are fossils found mostly in a sedimentary rock?
Because when the lava killed the animals, their remains stayed in the lava and dried to become sedimentary rock.
What sedimentary rocks where formed from the remains of plants and animals burned as fuels?
shells, bones and fossils
What type of rock forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in thick layers?
organic sedimentary
Remains of animals and plants were buried quickly in sediment during floods?
Such remains are known as fossils if the sediment is changed over eons into a sedimentary rock.
The type of rocks that form where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in thick layers are called?
The type of rock that forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in thick layers are called organic sedimentary rock.
What terms describes an animal that gets its nutrients from the remains of dead animals?
Saprobe
How can plants and animals form sedimentary rock?
Skeletal remains of many sea creatures settle on the ocean floor. Here they mix with sediments and eventually become sedimentary rock.
Describe how clastic sedimentary rock differs from chemical and organic sedimentary rock?
Clastic sedimentary rock forms when fragments of preexisting rocks are compacted or cemented together. Organic sedimentary rock forms from the remains of plants or animals. Chemical sedimentary rock forms when minerals precipitate from a solution or settle from a suspension.
What is the type of sedimentary rock formed from the remains of living things?
Organic sedimentary rock is comprised of the remains of once living organisms.
