compaction and cementation
The lithosphere includes rocks and sediments. This is the outermost solid part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. Rocks and sediments are part of the lithosphere's composition.
Sediment is created through the process of weathering and erosion. Weathering breaks down rocks into smaller pieces, while erosion transports these pieces to new locations where they accumulate and form sediment layers. Over time, pressure and cementation can turn these sediments into sedimentary rocks.
Sediment is dirt, rocks, and sand carried by a river.
Sediments come from the erosion of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.
Sediments is the plural of sediment
Sediment is small pieces of sand, soil, rocks, and other materials that settle at the bottom of a body of water. Over time, sediment can build up in layers and eventually harden into rocks or soil deposits.
Weathering and erosion are the processes that change rocks into sediments. Weathering breaks down rocks into smaller pieces, while erosion transports these sediments to new locations where they can accumulate. Over time, compaction and cementation turn these sediments into sedimentary rocks.
erosion
Erosion, mainly just that and as simple as that.
sediment gathers up then the water in the sediment starts to evaporate. Compaction and Cementation happens then forms layer after layer.
The term for dropping off sediments or rocks is deposition. This process occurs when sediment or rocks are transported by a natural agent such as water, wind, or ice, and then settle on the Earth's surface.
Sedimentary rocks are formed from the erosion of different material from tops of mountains and hills. Sedimentary rocks are formed by the build up and ensuing consolidation of sediments into different types of rocks.