Sedimentary Rocks - Page 2
Questions
- Why do sedimentary rocks have layers?
- What are sediments and how are they formed?
- When a sedimentary rock undergoes extreme heat and pressure what kind of rock does it turn into?
- How are clastic sediments classified?
- Where are sedimentary rocks found?
- What sedimentary rock is formed from thin layers of clay compacted very tightly together?
- What sedimentary rock is made of fragments of rock with jagged edges?
- How are clastic sedimentary rocks classified?
- How do sediments become sedimentary rock? What processes are involved?
- What type of sedimentary rocks form from the breakdown of larger rocks?
- The sedimentary rock that forms when water deposits particles of clay in thin layers is called what?
- Does the law of crosscutting relationships involve sedimentary rock only? Why or why not?
- What type of rock is formed by Earth's forces pressing and cementing it together?
- What forms when sediments are compacted and compressed together?
- What causes shale to change into slate?
- Why are sedimentary rocks only found on or close to Earth's surface?
- How does igneous rock become sedimemtary?