Sedimentary Rocks

The combination of process that gradually break up or chemically changed and weaken rock exposed to air and water at or just below the earth’s surface?

The cracking and breaking up of rock?

The chemical reaction of rock with air and water?

When water trap in a joint freezes and expands, it forces the joint to open?

The growth of salt crystal happen when water evaporates, the salt precipitate as crystal in the tiny open spaces, are pores, within the rock?

When a tree root growing in a joint can also push it open?

When various rock types weather at different?

It develop in sequences of alternating strong and weak layers?

It consists of sediment that has been modified over time by physical and chemical interaction with rainwater, air, organisms, and decaying organic matter?

Consist mostly of humus?

In which humus has decayed further and has mixed with mineral grains?

Is at the base of the A-horizon, leaching has taken place but not much organic matter has mixed in?

In here, transported clay and very fine organic particles collects and new minerals such as iron oxide grows?

It consists of weathered rock or sediment that has not yet undergone leaching or accumulation it creates downward into an weathered bedrock or an weathered sediment?

Is rock that forms at or near the surface of the earth?

A layer of sedimentary rock is called?

Separate grains that have been packed together and then cemented to one another?

Accumulation of mineral material in the shell upon litification process?

Organic rich sediment that undergo litification?

Rock formed by the direct precipitation of minerals from the water solution?

Clay or very fine silt?

Silt size clasts?

Sand grains in a clay matrix?

Quartz and feldspar grain m