How does igneous rock sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock different?

Anonymous

∙ 7y ago

Updated: 9/3/2021

Igneous rock is formed by magma cooling and becoming solid. Metamorphic rock is the end result of a process called metamorphism (which means "change in form"). Sedimentary rock is formed by sedimentation of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.

Vanessa Nader ∙

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∙ 4y ago

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