Sedimentary Rocks Flashcards
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Weathering
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Breaking rock materials into smaller pieces
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Erosion
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transportation of weathered materials
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Sediment
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Pieces of other rock materials (sometimes biologic material too)
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Deposition
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When an agent of erosion - water, wind, ice, or gravity - loses its energy, it drops the sediments
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Compaction
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as sediments are being buried under more sediments, they get “squished” together
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Cementation
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minerals like calcite and silica cement sediments together
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Lithification
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the process of becoming a sedimentary rock through compaction and cementation
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Clastic
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pieces of other rock that have been cemented together
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Bioclastic
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pieces of biologic origin that have been cemented together
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Crystalline
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Sedimentary rocks formed chemically through evaporation and precipitation
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