GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Erosion and weathering transform boulders and even mountains into sediments, such as sand or mud. Dissolution is a form of weathering-chemical weathering. With this process, water that is slightly acidic slowly wears away stone. These three processes create the raw materials for new, sedimentary rocks.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lithogenous sediments come from land via rivers, ice, wind and other processes. Biogenous sediments come from organisms like plankton when their exoskeletons break down.

Detailed explanation-3: -The processes by which sediments are changed into rock are complex, but can be simplified into two processes, called compaction and cementation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sedimentary processes, namely weathering, erosion, crystallization, deposition, and lithification, create the sedimentary family of rocks.

Detailed explanation-5: -The visible products of weathering and erosion are the unconsolidated materials that we find around us on slopes, beneath glaciers, in stream valleys, on beaches, and in deserts. The loose collection of material is referred to as sediment, and the individual pieces that make it up are called clasts.