Most sediments are:
A) chemical, resulting from organisms that have extracted the materials from water.
B) detrital, composed of solid fragments of other rocks that have undergone mechanical weathering.
C) detrital, resulting from solid particles precipitating from solution in water.
D) chemical, resulting from precipitation from solution in water.
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A)
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A)
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