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What type of sedimentary rock forms when grains of sand become cemented together?
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What rock forms when grains of sand become cemented together?
Sedimentary rock e.g Sandstone
What type of rock forms when small grains of rock are pressed together and become cemented?
A Clastic Sedimentary rock.
How do sediments change over time?
The get compacted with burial and dewater. The grains from which they are made become cemented together and the sediments become sedimentary rocks.
What type of rock would have grains cemented together?
That would be a sedimentary rock.
The grains of sedimentary rock?
tend to hold together better when they are well cemented.
What is a rock that is made up as pebbles and sand grains that have been cemented together?
Conglomerate; a clastic sedimentary rock composed of rounded pebbles and sand cemented together.
Is sand a sedimentary rock or is lots of sand joined together a sedimentary rock?
Sand is composed of small loose particles of eroded rock of any type, but commonly it is particles of quartz from igneous or metamorphic rock. Each sand grain is actually a rock unto itself. Only when the sand grains are cemented together through a process known as lithification, do the sand grains become part of a new sedimentary rock.
What is the meaning of sand stone?
Sandstone is noun , Sedimentary rock consisting of sand or quartz grains cemented together, typically red, yellow, or brown in color.
What sedimentary rocks forms when sand grains usually quzartz are compacted and cemented into rock?
Sandstone.
What is a type of sedimentary rock that is formed from compressed sand?
Compressed and cemented sand is called sandstone.
Does sand stone have calcite in it?
That would depend on which minerals cemented the sand grains together. Some sandstones are cemented together with the mineral calcite, others are not.
Sand grains cemented together into solid stone?
Sandstone
