sedimentary material

What Is Sedimentary Bedding? Bedding (also called stratification) is one of the most prominent features of sedimentary rocks, which are usually made up of ‘piles’ of layers (called ‘strata’) of sediments deposited one on top of another. Why do sedimentary rocks exhibit bedding? Graded bedding refers to a sequence of increasingly coarse- or fine-grained sediment