What are sediments? How are sediments formed?
What are sediments? How are sediments formed?
A rock represents a solid mass which is made up of an accumulation of minerals and other substances. There are three classes of sediments based on their generation is Clastic sediments, Chemical sediments, and Biochemical sediments.
A naturally occurring, broken fragment of pre-existing rock that may be igneous, metamorphic rock, or sedimentary rock is known as sediments. Sediments are solid materials that vary in colour, texture, size, shape, etc. with each other. This variation of sediments comes from the processes by which they go through and pre-existing rock materials from which they get generated. They are the smallest unit in sedimentary rocks. The weathering has three types, physical weathering, chemical weathering, and biological weathering. The physical weathering gives rise to clastic sediments, chemical weathering gives rise to chemical sediments, and biological weathering gives rise to biochemical sediments. These sediments get deposited and lithified to form sedimentary rocks. The formation of sediments started by the weathering and erosion of the pre-existing igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary rocks. In the process of weathering and erosion, the pre-existing rocks started breaking into pieces. These pieces get transported employing wind, water, glaciers, gravity, and other geological agents and give them different shapes and sizes.
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