Frederick was a rock who lived on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He was very happy there but he craved adventure
What's going on?!
One night it rained very hard, this rain broke up poor Frederick by weathering
Frederick's broken pieces were carried down a river where erosion broke him up even more
Ahhh! Help me!
I'm in little pieces :(
The river carried Frederick to the sea where the process of deposition settled out his broken pieces
Over millions of years the weight of new layers of sediment squeezed Frederick's pieces tightly together this process is called compaction
It is getting very claustrophobic in here
While the compaction was going on, minerals glued Frederick's pieces to the other particles of sediment in layers. Frederick was now a sedimentary rock!