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Q: What is sand rock?
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Is sand a type of rock?

Sand is composed of rock particles.


What will happen to sand if a rock is in the sand?

The effect will likely be on the rock. Sand is rock that has already been powdered by erosion. What will happen is that the sand, if it is hard enough, will erode the rock surface, which typically polishes it until it is smooth.


What rock results when sand liquefies?

Sandstone is the rock that results when sand liquefies.


Is sand desert sand a nonliving thing?

Yes. Sand consists of tiny grains of rock. Rock is not alive.


How do you make sand on alexmy?

rock and sand


Sedimentary rock formed from sand?

Sedimentary rock formed from sand is called sandstone.


Is sand a sedimentary rock or is lots of sand joined together a sedimentary rock?

Sand is composed of small loose particles of eroded rock of any type, but commonly it is particles of quartz from igneous or metamorphic rock. Each sand grain is actually a rock unto itself. Only when the sand grains are cemented together through a process known as lithification, do the sand grains become part of a new sedimentary rock.


Is it true that sand comes from rock in the desert?

Yes, sand is simply particles of weathered rock.


Why is there sand in the world?

sand comes mostly from rock and ground up stones, beach sand containes ground up shels as well. The earth is made of mostly rock and sand comes from rock so there you go......


Is a sand a solid?

Sand is a solid due to its molecular arrangement.


How does a speck of sand turn into a sedimentary rock?

The grain of sand becomes a sedimentary rock when it gets erosion and is deposited on the bottom of a body of water. Then the eroded sand builds up and becomes a sedimentary rock if there is enough eroded sand.


Where does sand from the Sahara Desert End up?

Sand represents the eroded rock of the continents.