1. organisms (like clams and corals)
chemical
weathering
can break rock into
are carried during
can create
dissolved
ions
any rock
at the surface
undergoes
mechanical
weathering
erosion by
clay
sand
gravel
silt
mud
breaks rock into
streams &
groundwater
is a type of
makes minerals from
clastic
sediment
usually to the
are
types of
grow in
plants
ocean
are carried during
crystallization
of ions usually happens in the
streams
waves
glaciers
gravity
wind
die
and are
that live in
is done by
erosion
is often aided by
happens before sediments are
creates minerals that then are
swamps
organisms (like clams and corals)
deposited
deposited
plant material will be buried and harden, or
deposited
sediments will harden, or
sediments harden, or become
burial
(compaction)
of sediments, causes them to
lithify
lithify
burial
(compaction)
lithified
cementation
forming
of sediments, causes them to become
minerals crystallized in water are
form after clastic sediments
cementation
lignite, peat, coal
clastic sedimentary
rock
chemical sedimentary
rock