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A quick example: Near shore sedimentary is subducted due to the collision of tectonic plates. The sedimentary rock gradually becomes slate from low grade metamorphism due to heat and pressure. The slate then becomes a higher grade metamorphic rock, like schist. If the increase in heat and pressure continue with subduction, the rock will eventually melt. If the product of this melt is erupted by a volcano or becomes a plutonic extrusion and solidifies, it will form an igneous rock.
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∙ 13y agoSedimentary rock is made into igneous rock when it melts into magma. When a volcano erupts it spews out the magma, which as it cools and crystallises forms igneous rock. This then gets buried under more and more rock, which causes immense pressure and heat, which causes it to turn into metamorphic rock, such as marble, (which is actually the metamorphic rock of granite).
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∙ 11y agoThe igneous and metamorphic rocks will have to undergo erosion into grains that settle and become sedimentary rock (with time and pressure).
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What type of rocks are metamorphic rocks formed from?
Any rock can become a metamorphic rock. To become a metamorphic rock the rock must undergo heat and/or pressure, but not so much that the rock melts. Should the rock melt it would become an igneous rock.
Is shale igneous metamorphic sedimentary?
It is a Sedimentary rock
Is cinnabar a igneous metamorphic or sedimentary rock?
igneous
How do igneous rocks from into a sedimentary rock?
igneous rocks mix with metamorphic rocks and they combine together to make a sedimentary rock. the three themes of science rocks are metamorphic,igneous, and sedimentary.
Which which mars rock contains fossils sedimentary igneous or metamorphic sedementary igneous or metamorphic.?
igneous
What can a metamorphic rock become?
A pre-existing, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock.
Is there a sentence with the word rock cycle?
Igneous rock can weather and become sedimentary rock . Metamorphic rock can be melted in a volcano and become igneous rock. Igneous rock and sedimentary rock can be heated and pressurized to form metamorphic rock.
What is required to change an igneous rock into a sedimentary rock?
Igneous rocks are a "finished product". They do not become sedimentary rock - though sedimentary rocks, with heat and pressure can become metamorphic rocks.
What in no more than three sentences can you explain the rock cycle?
Igneous rock can change into sedimentary rock or into metamorphic rock. Sedimentary rock can change into metamorphic rock or into igneous rock. Metamorphic rock can change into igneous or sedimentary rock.
Is graphite igneous sedimentary or metamorphic?
Graphite is a mineral, not a rock that is classified as metamorphic, igneous or sedimentary.
What type of rocks are metamorphic rocks formed from?
Any rock can become a metamorphic rock. To become a metamorphic rock the rock must undergo heat and/or pressure, but not so much that the rock melts. Should the rock melt it would become an igneous rock.
Is gneiss an igneous metamorphic or sedimentary rock?
It is a Metamorphic rock
Is schist a sedimentary or igneous or metamorphic rock?
it is a metamorphic rock
Is a seashell an igneous sedimentary or metamorphic rock?
metamorphic rock
Is gneiss igneous metamorphic or sedimentary rock?
It is a Metamorphic rock
How a sedimentary rock or igneous rock become a metamorphic rock?
when sedimentary rocks get exposed to great heat and pressure, they become more consolidated (harder to weather). when igneous rock combines with sediments and the two are heated under pressure, they become one rock, a metamorphic rock
What type of rock can become sedimentary?
Any type of rock, igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary, can become eroded and re-deposited and cemented together to become a new sedimentary rock.
