How are sedimentary rocks form?

Answer 1

Sedimentary rocks can be formed in various ways, and are classified by the method of formation or content. Broadly, sedimentary rock is classified as being clastic, organic, or chemical. Following are the three types and how they are formed.

Clastic sedimentary rock:

The majority of sedimentary rock on Earth is formed from particles of pre-existing rocks. This route begins with the weathering and erosion of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic rocks. Through these processes, larger rock is broken up into smaller particles which are transported by moving water, ice, gravity or wind, and deposited at the bottom of a lake, a river delta, an ocean, or similar location where further movement is restricted or slowed down. The rock particles can range in size from boulders to clay particles less than .002 mm in diameter. If these rock particles are covered by additional particles, eventually the weight from above will start the process of lithification. Lithification is the compaction and cementing together of sediment particles which form rock. Compaction squeezes out the fluids and space that exist between the particles, and cementation results when minerals form from the migrating solution. Once cementation occurs, the new sedimentary rock has been formed. Rocks formed in this manner include sandstone, shale, mudstone, breccia, and conglomerate.

Organic sedimentary rock:

Chalk and other fossiliferous limestones are composed of the skeletons of marine organisms. Coal is composed of vegetation that originated and was deposited in swampy and marshy waterlogged soils which prevented their full decay after their death. As their remains piled up and were covered by more and more deposits, they were compacted and cemented in the same manner as clastic rock.

Chemical sedimentary rock:

Sedimentary rock can also form when minerals in a body of water have so saturated the water that they precipitate out, like a cloud that is so full of moisture that it pours out rain. Some limestones are formed in this manner as the mineral calcite precipitates out of a saturated solution and undergoes the process of compaction and cementation. The supersaturated solutions can also be caused by evaporation of a body of water high in mineral solution content. As the water evaporates, the mineral percentage of the remaining solution becomes higher and higher, until the mineral crystallizes. Rocks such as rock salt and rock gypsum are formed in this manner.

It is formed by the sedimentation of material at the Earth's surface and also in the bodies of water.
Sedimentary rocks are formed at the bottom of lakes after being compressed over a long period of time...
Sedimentary rocks are formed mainly through a proccess called Diagnesis. Diagnesis can be defined as the combined process of gradual and contineous accumulation, stratification, compactation, sedimentation, cementation, and lithification of transported and deposited debrises, detrituses, regoliths and other earths disintegrated materials, to form sedimentary rocks over a long period of time. Sedimentary rocks are created or formed out of virtually anything that exists around, which can be moved either by wind, water, glacier or waves and deposited in a specific place over and over again. They are rocks that tends to "germinate" by addition of materials/matter in stratas/layers and then the materials hardens, glues up/cements to themselves and hardens with time.
Sand and other particles are buried, compacted, and cemented together.

Answer 2

Sedimentary rocks are formed by the cementation from sediments that are eroded from the other types of rocks. Because of pressure, those sediments deposited together and become sedimentary rock.

Answer 3

Sedimentary rocks can be formed in various ways, and are classified by the method of formation or content. Broadly, sedimentary rock is classified as being clastic, organic, or chemical. Following are the three types and how they are formed.

Clastic sedimentary rock:

The majority of sedimentary rock on Earth is formed from particles of pre-existing rocks. This route begins with the weathering and erosion of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic rocks. Through these processes, larger rock is broken up into smaller particles which are transported by moving water, ice, gravity or wind, and deposited at the bottom of a lake, a river delta, an ocean, or similar location where further movement is restricted or slowed down. The rock particles can range in size from boulders to clay particles less than .002 mm in diameter. If these rock particles are covered by additional particles, eventually the weight from above will start the process of lithification. Lithification is the compaction and cementing together of sediment particles which form rock. Compaction squeezes out the fluids and space that exist between the particles, and cementation results when minerals form from the migrating solution. Once cementation occurs, the new sedimentary rock has been formed. Rocks formed in this manner include sandstone, shale, mudstone, breccia, and conglomerate.

Organic sedimentary rock:

Chalk and other fossiliferous limestones are composed of the skeletons of marine organisms. Coal is composed of vegetation that originated and was deposited in swampy and marshy waterlogged soils which prevented their full decay after their death. As their remains piled up and were covered by more and more deposits, they were compacted and cemented in the same manner as clastic rock.

Chemical sedimentary rock:

Sedimentary rock can also form when minerals in a body of water have so saturated the water that they precipitate out, like a cloud that is so full of moisture that it pours out rain. Some limestones are formed in this manner as the mineral calcite precipitates out of a saturated solution and undergoes the process of compaction and cementation. The supersaturated solutions can also be caused by evaporation of a body of water high in mineral solution content. As the water evaporates, the mineral percentage of the remaining solution becomes higher and higher, until the mineral crystallizes. Rocks such as rock salt and rock gypsum are formed in this manner.

It is formed by the sedimentation of material at the Earth's surface and also in the bodies of water.
Sedimentary rocks are formed at the bottom of lakes after being compressed over a long period of time...
Sedimentary rocks are formed mainly through a proccess called Diagnesis. Diagnesis can be defined as the combined process of gradual and contineous accumulation, stratification, compactation, sedimentation, cementation, and lithification of transported and deposited debrises, detrituses, regoliths and other earths disintegrated materials, to form sedimentary rocks over a long period of time. Sedimentary rocks are created or formed out of virtually anything that exists around, which can be moved either by wind, water, glacier or waves and deposited in a specific place over and over again. They are rocks that tends to "germinate" by addition of materials/matter in stratas/layers and then the materials hardens, glues up/cements to themselves and hardens with time.
Sand and other particles are buried, compacted, and cemented together.

Answer 4

Sedimentary rocks are formed when eroded earth builds up

Answer 5

sedimentary rock form by the deposition of material at the Earht's surface within bodies at water...

Answer 6

formed by the accumulation and consolidation of mineral and organic fragments that have been deposited by water, ice, or wind Compare igneous, metamorphic.

Answer 7

Heat and pressure are removed from other rocks.