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What do you call the layers in sedimentary rock?

Sedimentary rock layers. your welcome


How can you tell the reative age of a sedimentary rock?

Unless disturbed by later events, younger layers overlie older layers. See the law of super-position.


What rocks is formed in layers?

Sedimentary rock, like limestone, is formed in layers.


What rock formed in layers?

sedimentary rock


What type of rock forms in layers?

That would be sedimentary rock, and (honorable mention) occasionally metamorphic rock.


What is layers of rock called?

sedimentary


Which rock has several layers?

Sedimentary


How can igneous rock disturb sedimentary rock layers?

Igneous rocks can disturb sedimentary rock layers and formations by their movement during ascent through such layer. when they make contact with this sedimentary rocks they could result to folding and/or metamorphism.


Why are index fossils useful for figure out the age of a set of disturbed rock layers?

index fossils are useful for figuring out the age of a set of disturbed rock layers by index fossils are used to determine when rock layers were formed so if they were used to figure out the age of a set of disturbed rock layers than they can also figure out when they were formed .


When might the youngest layer in a set of sedimentary rock not be on top?

1. If a set of rock layers has been disturbed by movement of tectonic plates, the youngest layer may no longer be on top.


Why portions of the sedimentary rock layers have the symbol for contact metamorphism?

the rock layers were eroded at the interface between the igneous intrusion and the sedimentary rocks.


Why was sedimentary rock named sedimentary rock?

Because the rocks are formed by using layers of Sediment.