Sedimentary

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Formed from, pre existing rock

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Sedimentary rock

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Process of sedimentary rock

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Rock and minerals -> weathering -> sediments-> erosion/ transportation-> deposition/ sedimentation -> diagenesis/lithification -> SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

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Chem or physical process that change the characteristics of rock on the earth’s surface

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Weathering

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Type of weathering that rocks are broken dowm into smaller pieces

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Physical weathering

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Physical wethering are common in

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Cold and dry areas

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Freezing and thawing of water

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Frost wedging

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Peeling away of large sheet of loosen material at the surface of the earth

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Exfoliation

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It is the process of friction caused by scuffing, scratching, wearing down, marring, and rubbing away of materials.

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Abrasion

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Weathering by plants

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Biological activity

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Rock change into another substance by reacting with a chemical

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Chemical weathering

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Type of chemical weathering that oxygeninteracts causing things such as rusting

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Oxidation

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Type of chemical weathering that water interacts through absorption

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Hydration

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Type of chemical weathering that water mixes with CO2

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Carbonation

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When a carbonic acid dissolves creating caverns and caves

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Karst topography

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all material between fresh bedrock and the ground surface, including weathered bedrock, deposits and soil

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Ragolith

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-Combination of rock, minerals and organic matter
- a product of weathering

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Soil

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Transportation of rocks

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Erosion

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Primary agent of erosion

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Water

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Organic material in soil

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Humus

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The base of the soil profile

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Bedrock

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Organic matter and soil life

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Surface/top soil

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Materials that bounced along the substrate

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Bedload

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Clast moved by rolling along the bottom of the ait flow and water flow

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Rolling

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Particles moves on a series of jumps, periodically leaving the bed surface and carried short distances within the fuild before returning to bed again

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Saltration

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Materials carried in suspension

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Suspended loa

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Materials carried as dissolves solids

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Dissolve loads

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Laying down of sediments

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Deposition

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Sediment particles is sorted based on their sizes and density

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Sorting

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Layering of sedimentary rock

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Stratification

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layers are squeezed together and any water mixed in with the sediments is forced out.

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Compaction

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Turing solid rock into sediments

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Weathering

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How long does it take to complete a sedimentary rock

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A million years ago

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Compacting of the layers of the rocks

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Cementation

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Converting sediments into sedimentary rock

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Lithification

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process by which sedimentary rocks are altered after they are deposited, but before they are buried and lithified

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Diagenesis

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Mud

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Mudstones and shale

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Sand

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Sandstone

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Gravel

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Conglomerate

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Made from the broken fragments of the other rock cemented together by a mineral

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Clastic sedimentary rock

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Particle: Boulder and cobble

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Conglomerate

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Particle: Pebble and granule

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Breccia

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Particle: Sand

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Sandstone

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Particle: Silt and clay

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Shale, mudstone,siltstone

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Made up of rounded or sub rounded pebbles

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Crudaceous rocks

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Made up of mostly sands

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Arenaceous rocks

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Made up of clay size sediments Example: shale

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Argillaceous rocks

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Components are precipitates from dissolved load

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Non clastic rocks

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Formed by chemical precipitation

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Chemical sedimentary rocks

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Made up of carbonate

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Limestone

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Give atleast 3 types of limestone

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Chalk, tufa, crystalline limestone, coquina, grainstone, marl

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It is not have a salty taste and softer than a rocksalt

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Rock gypsum

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Gypsum is an example of

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Evaporites

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Formed by the eveaporation of water and precipitation of dissolved minerals

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Evaporites

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It is formed from the precipitation of silica rich solutions in various environments

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Chert

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Chert is made up of

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Quartz

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Form limestone that deposited by mineral rich hotspring or geyser

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Travertine

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Examples of evaporite

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Halite, gypsum, anhydrite

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Type of sedimentary rock that is from the remains of the living things

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Organic sedimentary rock

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Example of organic sedimentary rock

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Coal, chalk

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Clast is rounded

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Conglomerate

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Clast is angular

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Breccia