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They accumulate and gather up into thick layers, which with time get compacted and lithified to form sedimentary rock.
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What is the difference between terrigenous sediments and biogenous sediments?
Terrigenous sediments come from the earth "Terri" means land or earth in greek "genous" means origin. Biogenous sediments come from organic matter.
Large flat surfaces in which continental sediments settle are called?
Continental shelf. But these were mainly created in the ice ages, when the sea level was much lower. ^^^^^^^^^ WRONG abyssal plains ----- JLOPARDO
When windblown sediments settle behind and obstacle these are created?
It's just known as an Eolian (wind-driven) deposit. It will result in the formation of a slope of varying degrees, depending on the friction of the material against itself. Greater friction will lead to a slope of greater angle.
What does sedimentation mean in a kid's words?
I am a kid, and i am 8. i think it means something turning into sediments, or something forming into sediments.
How do moving sediments affects the channel of a stream?
The sediments build up on the floor of the stream, ocean, river, or lake and causes the water to lower.
What do we call materials that settle out of water?
These materials are sediments.
Sediments made from microscopic shells that settle to the bottom when the organisms that produced them die are called?
Biogeneous sediments
What must happen to metamorphic rock to become sedimentary rock?
The rock is eroded or weathered away into sediments. The sediments settle and through compaction , the sediments are pushed together to form a sediment. Short Answer: It must be broken down into a sediment.
Which sediments settle first sand boulders pebbles?
Boulders
What is Minerals and debris that settle at the bottom of a river are called?
sediments
Sediments that settle out during water treatment?
sewage or sludge.
What kind of sediments settle out during waste water treatment?
my face
Where does a River erode sediment?
sediments are transported by ocean rift, streams, river currents, wind (air). they are deposited according to size. The largest sediments are deposited first. The sediments settle into the sand and are carried by the stream. Near the mouth of the stream where the water moves slowly the small sediments settle out. The larger sediments get carried by the river into the sea then the samller sediments. The sea water dissolved minerals and soak the sediments and cement together. This eventually forms sediments.
The law of horizontality predicts that what?
Sediments will settle in a horizontal layer. Sediments or sedimentary rock which appears otherwise has been moved by Earth forces.
Deposited rock particles and other materials that settle in a liquid are called?
Sediments.
What happens to materials in a river no longer has the energy to carry them?
They settle out as deposited sediments.
Why did the Sumerians settle on fertile land?
Yes they did settle on fertile land
