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Sediment ranges from boulders down to clay in size.
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Water and wind are players in the transport of sediment.
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Sediment sorts by the size and density of the detritus.
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Clastic sedimentary rocks come from detritus of different sorts.
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Non-clastic sedimentary rocks come from biochemical chert, biochemical processes, and chemical sedimentation processes.
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The names of sedimentary rocks depend on the type of sediment. The size and sorting of the sediment count in defining the rock.
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There are many things that we get from sedimentary rock.
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