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Sediment |
Solid material, such as sand, soil, pebbles, and organic matter, that is carried in air, water, or ice and settles out. |
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Clastic rock |
Sedimentary rock made mainly from fragments of other rocks. |
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Conglomerate |
Clastic rock made of rounded pebbles cemented together. |
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Chemical rock |
Sedimentary rock that forms from chemicals dissolved in water. |
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Organic rock |
Sedimentary rock that forms from the remains of living things. |
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Foliated rock |
Metamorphic rock in which materials have been rearranged into visible bands. |
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Nonfoliated rock |
Metamorphic rock that does not show bands. |
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Rock cycle |
Series of natural changes that cause one type of rock to become another type of rock. |
