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Sedimentary Rock
Question | Answer |
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What is sedimentary rock? | rock that is formed by sediments such as sand, mud, or other types of sediment. |
What is compaction? | When layers of sediment squeeze down on lower layers of sediment and force out water. |
What is cementation? | When sediments, such as sand, are "glued" together with natural minerals. |
What does a stratified rock look like? | A rock with layers. |
What is an unstratified rock? | A rock without layers. |
What is a clastic rock? | Sedimentary rocks that are made up of little pieces of other rocks (sediments). |
What are examples of clastic rocks? | sand, shale, conglomerate |
Describe a conglomerate. | A rock that is made up of pieces of other rocks, such as pebbles, that are "glued" together. |
Describe sandstone. | A sedimentary rock composed of sand grains that are cemented and compacted. |
Describe shale. | The most common sedimentary rock, shale is composed of silt, clay, and mud that have been compacted. |
What is a chemical rock? | A chemical rock is not made of pieces of sediment, but instead it's made of minerals that were dissolved in water, and the water has evaporated. |
What is an organic rock? | A rock that is composed of fossils (the sediment is all from living organisms). |