Geography
Transported sediments get deposited in layers leading to increased pressure and temperature on the lower layers. Select the correct sequence of processes involved in the lithification of these sediments.
- Compaction — Evaporation — Cementation.
- Evaporation — Compaction — Cementation.
- Evaporation — Cementation — Compaction.
- Evaporation — Dehydration — Cementation.
Related Questions
The process that turns loose sediments into rocks:
- Compaction
- Lithification
- Cementation
- None of the above
The bonding together of compacted sediments by natural bonding materials such as calcium compounds, silica and iron:
- Compaction
- Lithification
- Cementation
- None of the above
Sam was working under a geologist. He lost his balance and dropped the bags containing igneous rocks and sedimentary rocks and the rocks got mixed. How would he separate them?
- Igneous rocks are hard.
- Igneous rocks are crystalline.
- Sedimentary rocks have strata showing layers.
- Sedimentary rocks are soft.
Assertion (A): Igneous rocks are called primary rocks.
Reason (R): They were the first to be formed.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
- Both A and R are true but R does not explain A.
- A is true but R is false.
- A is false but R is true.