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the compaction and heat under the layers of the Earth causes this process to occur
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How long does it take for a diamond to become a sedimentary rock?
Although diamonds could become part of a formation of conglomerate, which is a sedimentary rock, diamond cannot become a rock because diamond is a mineral, whereas a rock has to be composed of two or more minerals.
What type of rock can become sedimentary?
Any type of rock, igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary, can become eroded and re-deposited and cemented together to become a new sedimentary rock.
Why are few sedimentary rock found deep inside the earth?
any rock can become a sedimentary rock.
What Tiny grains eroded from rock?
We call them clastic rock also referred to us the sedimentary rock.
How is lgneous rock and sedimentary rock and metomorphic rock is the same?
They all are part of the rock cycle
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.
What type of sedimentary rock forms when grains of sand become cemented together?
Sandstone
Can sedimentary rock change into sediments?
Absolutely. And eventually they can become a part of a new sedimentary rock.
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.
Is sandstone igneous or sedimentary or metamorphic?
Sandstone is a sedimentary rock which is made up of sand grains which have been compressed to form a rock that has very weak bonds holding the grains together. The grains themselves can be igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic depending on which rock the grains were eroded from.
How can a sedimentary rock become a breccias?
Firstly, a breccia is itself a kind of sedimentary rock. It consists mainly of large (pea sized and up), angular sediment grains. For an existing sedimentary rock to become a breccia, it must be weathered into fragments, redeposited elsewhere, and buried to sufficient pressure for the sediment to become rock.
What types of grains is sedimentary rock made from?
sand grains
What must happen to an igneous rock before it can become a sedimentary or metamorphic rock?
To become a sedimentary rock, an igneous rock must first be weathered, and then eroded, and then deposited as a sediment, and then consolidated (e.g. by cementation or pressure welding of grains.) To become a metamorphic rock it must be transformed by heat and pressure, which it can do directly (e.g. granite turning into gneiss) or after first turning into a sedimentary rock.
What rock has parallel bands of dark and light mineral grains?
It is a sedimentary rock
What type of rock would have grains cemented together?
That would be a sedimentary rock.
Which type of rock forms when sediments become pressed and cemented together?
When cemented together, clastic sedimentary rock.
