Sandstone: Ah, the good old days. Well, my family is known as the Old Red Sandstone. We started to form about 400 million years ago.

What came first sand or sandstone?

After sand grains have formed as a result of weathering and have been transported by water, ice, or wind, the next step in the sandstone story is deposition. In deposition suspended sediments, such as sand grains, settle out. To form sedimentary rock, the sediments need to be deposited and accumulate.

How is sandstone formed?

Sandstone forms from beds of sand laid down under the sea or in low-lying areas on the continents. As a bed of sand subsides into the earth's crust , usually pressed down by over-lying sediments, it is heated and compressed.