Answer:
Sedimentary rocks are rocks composed of sediment. Sediment is deposited in a number of environments of deposition, by both moving air and moving water. Sedimentary rock identification is primarily based on composition. Texture will still be used but in a different sense than for igneous rocks.May 17, 2017
Explanation:
Erosion, weathering, freeze thaw, corrosion etc
Explanation:
Lava Cools on the side of a volcano
Storms erode the hardened lava
Particles of hardened water settle at the bottom of lakes
Layers of sediments bond underwater
Plate movement bakes sedimentary layers.
Since the transition is from igneous to sedimentary to metamorphic rocks;
- Lava which is magma or molten rock that reaches the surface cools and solidifies to form a volcano.
- Weathering and erosion of the volcano then proceeds and sediments are formed
- The sediments are further carried underwater where they harden at bottom of lakes.
- Layers of the sediments bond and cements together underwater to form sedimentary rocks.
- Tectonic activities further bakes the layers to form metamorphic rocks.
The magma that rises out of them cools eventually, with some help from the water. eventually all the cooled magma builds up into an island.
