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Sediment is the stuff that settles at the bottom of a liquid (such as the bottom of a pond). It can include sand and pebbles but also dead plants and animals. If conditions are right, the sediment can dry out and turn into a sedimentary rock (a rock made from sediment). Sedimentary rocks can contain fossils of plants or animals that fell into the "muck" at the bottom of a body of water. Cool, huh?
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What rock can be changed into sediment by weathering and erosion?
Any and all rock can be changed into sediment by weathering and erosion.
What does sediment form into when it falls to the sea bed?
when sediment falls into the sea it forms into sedimentary rock which then turns into metamorphic rock and back again it comes from the volcanoes it plays a major role in the rock cycle
When sediment is deposited in layers what rock is formed?
sedimentary
What type of rock weather to form sediment?
erosion
How can a metamorphic rock turn into sedimentary rock and then back to metamorphic?
metamorphic rock melts turns into lava,lava cools turns into igneous rock,igneous rock is weathered and eroded into sediment,sediment turns into sedimentary rocksedimentary rock gets heated and squeezed forms metamorphic rockcycle continues.......
How is sediment?
The sediment transport by the rock cycle
What is created as a result of the moving of rock and sediments?
The ultimate creation of moving rock and sediment is a sediment deposit. Sediment deposits can eventually lithify into sedimentary rock.
How do you know a rock if whether it's a sediment rock or not?
you can tell if its a sediment rock if you can feel different elements of sand or pebbles
What are the rock and soil deposits by streams called?
Sediment
The ease with which water flows through the open spaces in a rock or sediment indicates the of the rock or sediment?
permeability
What rock can be changed into sediment by weathering and erosion?
Any and all rock can be changed into sediment by weathering and erosion.
Why does water carve rock?
Water will pick up sediment and the sediment will collide with the rock and eventually carve out rock. The water itself does not break down the rock.
The ease with which water flows through the open spaces in a rock or sediment indicates the what of the rock or sediment?
The permeability.
Why is sediment size alone not enough to classify clastic rock?
becuse sediment alone is not enough to classify clastic rock because clastic rock is made up of more than just sediment
What happens to sediment as it change to sedimentary rock?
Erosion deposits sediment.
What are the families of rock?
the family's of rock are igneose, and sediment
Describe the sequence of geologic events represented by an angular unconformity?
sediment made into rock, tilting, erosion, sediment into rock
