Sedimentary rocks are the "recyclers" of the rock cycle, they take any other rock and turn it into a new one. Antelope Canyon in Arizona is carved from sandstone, a sedimentary rock. ©Andrea ...

These sedimentary rocks come from a time of continental congregation before Pangaea—a supercontinent called Rodinia. A massive mountain range rose up along a similar line as today’s ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

The metamorphic versions of other sedimentary rocks like sandstone and shale are well known, at least to home renovators. Quartzite kitchen benches were once sandstone, and slate tiles are the ...

Overall, out of all of the separate subtypes of sedimentary rock, fossils are most abundant in shale, sandstone and limestone, though they also appear in conglomerates and breccias. Shale With ...

Red Rock Canyon is characterized by a series of canyons and parallel, sandstone ridges, (called “hogbacks”), sculpted by ...

An astonishing new rock formation has been revealed in the Colorado Rockies, and it exists in a deeply perplexing relationship with older rocks. Named the Tava sandstone, this sedimentary rock ...

Sedimentary rocks, like sandstone and chalk, are made from layers of broken up bits of other rocks and the remains of animals and plants. Over time these are squashed together to form rock.