Sandstone compacted particles. Light micrograph of compacted rock forming sandstone. Sandstone is a type of sedimentary rock, one formed from the depo

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Sandstone compacted particles. Light micrograph of compacted rock forming sandstone. Sandstone is a type of sedimentary rock, one formed from the deposition over time of small particles of other rocks. Pressure from overlying layers compacts the particles together to form a solid substance.

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Photo credit: © IKELOS GmbH/Dr. Christopher B. Jackson/Science Photo Library / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: -, compacted, earth, fragment, fragments, geological, geology, light, lm, micrograph, microscope, mineral, particle, particles, petrography, petrology, rock, rocks, sandstone, science, section, sectioned, sedimentary, slice