Chemical Sedimentary Rocks Are Best Described as

Clastic or detrital sedimentary rocks are made from pieces of bedrock sediment derived primarily by mechanical weathering. Clastic rocks are classified by grain shape grain size and sorting.

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Clastic rocks may also include chemically weathered sediment.

. It is common in the continental crust of Earth where it is found in igneous intrusionsThese range in size from dikes only a few centimeters. Sedimentary rocks whether terrigenous carbonate chemical or volcaniclastic contain a wealth of information that relate how they formed at or close to Earths surface and the various physical and chemical processes that affected them as they were buried. The Henry Mountains of Utah.

In geology an igneous intrusion or intrusive body or simply intrusion is a body of intrusive igneous rock that forms by crystallization of magma slowly cooling below the surface of the EarthIntrusions have a wide variety of forms and compositions illustrated by examples like the Palisades Sill of New York and New Jersey. Sedimentary rock is classified into two main categories. Granite ˈ ɡ r æ n ə t is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz alkali feldspar and plagioclaseIt forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.

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