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sedimentary rock

rock formed by the deposition of material
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sedimentary rock
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sedimentary rock

Summary

sedimentary rock is a rock type[1]. It draws 18,079 Wikipedia views per month (rock_type category, ranking #4 of 11).[2]

Key Facts

  • sedimentary rock's instance of is recorded as rock type[3].
  • sedimentary rock is a type of rock[4].
  • sedimentary rock is a type of sedimentary material[5].
  • sedimentary rock's Commons category is recorded as Sedimentary rocks[6].
  • sedimentary rock's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sedimentary rocks[7].
  • sedimentary rock's Commons gallery is recorded as Sedimentary rock[8].
  • sedimentary rock's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • sedimentary rock's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • sedimentary rock's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • sedimentary rock's equivalent class is recorded as https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockmaterial/Sedimentary_Rock[12].
  • sedimentary rock's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#sedimentary_rock[13].
  • sedimentary rock's different from is recorded as igneous rock[14].
  • sedimentary rock's different from is recorded as metamorphic rock[15].
  • sedimentary rock's studied by is recorded as sedimentology[16].
  • sedimentary rock's studied by is recorded as lithology[17].
  • sedimentary rock's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18].
  • sedimentary rock's P14541 is recorded as 1rkoiz[19].

Body

Definition and Type

sedimentary rock's instance of is recorded as rock type[3]. Recorded subclass of include rock[4] and sedimentary material[5].

Why It Matters

sedimentary rock draws 18,079 Wikipedia views per month (rock_type category, ranking #4 of 11).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 86 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . resource.geosciml.org. resource.geosciml.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Q141222183. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Q141311859. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ast', 'awa', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn',
    Equivalent class → https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockmaterial/Sedimentary_Rock, http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#sedimentary_rock
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002016"
  2. 29d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Punjabipedia id → ਤਲਛੱਟ ਚਟਾਨ; ਪਰਤਦਾਰ ਚਟਾਨ; ਤਹਿਦਾਰ ਚਟਾਨ
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P7820]]: ਤਲਛੱਟ ਚਟਾਨ; ਪਰਤਦਾਰ ਚਟਾਨ; ਤਹਿਦਾਰ ਚਟਾਨ"
  3. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockmaterial/Sedimentary_Rock, http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#sedimentary_rock
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#sedimentary_rock"
  4. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → —
    Equivalent class → https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockmaterial/Sedimentary_Rock, http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#sedimentary_rock
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ Moving [[Property:P2888]] to [[Property:P1709]]"
  5. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1rkoiz
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000843-sedimentarni-horniny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000843-sedimentarni-horniny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  7. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by → sedimentology, lithology
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → rock, sedimentary material
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14849, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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