How does sedimentary rock form?
1 Answer
Sedimentary rocks form when sediments solidify and become rocks.
Explanation:
Sand in the presences of Calcium Carbonate from sea shells becomes a rock. The Calcium Carbonate is what makes concrete.
The sand mixes with the Calcium Carbonate and becomes sandstone.
Other forms of sediments mud, silt, and organic material can be turned into rock by pressure, and chemical process similar to the action of Calcium Carbonate.
The sediments settle down to the bottom of the oceans, where they can be turned into sedimentary rocks. The question from modern plate tectonics is how the deep ocean sediments end up on the tops of mountains and on the continental crust. Plate tectonics says that the oceanic plates are pushed under the continental crusts in subduction zones. The sediments are then changed into metamorphic rocks and melted into igneous rocks.
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