Science rocks! Explore three types of rocks and the rock cycle with an igneous rocks experiment. Pupils discuss textures, composition, and learn how melts are formed from the Earth's crust. They weigh materials using a scientific scale...

This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on the lithification of sedimentary rocks. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.

Learn about the formation of sedimentary rocks.

Everything you need to know about sedimentary rocks and the processes by which they are created, including weathering, soils, environments, and classification.

This resource gives short descriptions of how sedimentary deposition occurs in rivers, lakes, river mouths, coral reefs, glaciers, arid environments, and tropical environments.

Explains what sedimentary rocks are, the three main types, and how they are formed.

This one-page explanation of the rock cycle contains a very helpful diagram and useful explanatory notes. Site explains how rocks are made and broken down.

This resource explains the depositional processes that occur in sedimentary rock formation to produce stratification, cross-bedding, graded bedding, rippled effects, and solidified mud cracks. Includes photographs of each type.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide briefly summarizes key points about the Principle of Horizontality and how it relates to sedimentary rock formation. Includes a few questions to...

Describes the formation of the Salem Limestone during the Mississippian Period.

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed mostly of carbon and hydrocarbons. It is the most abundant fossil fuel produced in the United States. Coal is also a nonrenewable energy source because it takes...