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Sedimentary Rocks 5.3

 * Vocabulary**
 * Sediment-**small,solid pieces of materials
 * Erosion-**carry away the fragments of rocks
 * Deposition-**process by which sediment settles out water
 * Compaction-**process that presses sediments together
 * Cementation-**process which dissolved minerals crystallize together
 * Clastic Rock-**forms when rock fragments are squeezed together
 * Organic Rock-**forms when remains of plants are deposited in thick layers
 * Chemical Rock-**forms when minerals dissolved in a solution crystallize

Outline

 * From Sediment to Rock**
 * Sediment
 * small solid pieces of material
 * water, wind, and ice
 * carry sediment and deposit in layers
 * Erosion**
 * Destructive forces
 * breaking rocks on earth's surface
 * forces
 * heat
 * cold
 * rain
 * ice
 * waves
 * Deposition**
 * water and wind
 * deposits sediment
 * sediments might include other things
 * shells
 * bones
 * leaves
 * stems
 * Compaction**
 * over million years of compaction
 * thick layers of sediment build
 * compaction
 * compacts sediment, squeezing them together
 * Cementation**
 * minerals in rock slowly dissolve
 * dissolved minerals go in spaces between particles
 * cementation and compaction
 * make solid sedimentary rock