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Describe how the granite of a mountain could change first into sandstone and then into quartzite?
Weathering causes the granite to break down into small particles - sand. The sand becomes buried and compacts into sandstone. If the sandstone continues to be buried and comes into close contact with high heat, such as magma, it can be turned into quartzite.
How the granite of a mountain could change first into sandstone and then quartzite?
Well, honey, let me break it down for you. Granite is a tough cookie, but over time, it can weather and break down into smaller pieces, forming sandstone. Then, with a little heat and pressure, that sandstone can get a makeover and transform into quartzite. It's like nature's way of giving rocks a glow-up.
How does the granite of a mountain change first into a sandstone into a quartzite?
The forces of the mountain building slowly pushed the granite upward. This formed a mountain. Water and wind slowly wore the granite away. The sand remaining was carried by streams to the ocean. Over millions of years layers of sediment piled up on the ocean floor and changed to sandstone. Sandstone is a Sedimentary rock. Over time, the sandstone became deeply buried. Heat and pressure changed the sandstone to quartzite, a metamorphic rock. I got this from my science homework. :)
How do the growth of grains in sandstone change to quartzite?
The minerals in sandstone recrystallize when granite first turns into sandstone a gritty sedimentary rock under weathering and erosion and then into the metamorphic rock quartzite under heat and pressure and then it goes all the way throughout the rock cycle and back into its original form of granite a igneous rock and is formed when magma recrystallizes.
How can the granite of a mountain change first into sandstone and then into quartize?
The Granite mountain becomes weathered and eroded by surface processes and the debris is carried off and separated into its sandy components by water flowing in rivers. The sandy sediments pile up and become buried by more sediments and as this happens they fuse together to form a new sandstone rock. Should this new rock become involved in a continental collision that heats up and squashes the sandstone rock this will metamorphose into a quartzite.
What happens to the minerals in sandstone when it changes into quartzite?
The minerals in the sandstones usually recrystallize when it changes into quartzite. Heat must be applied to sandstone to change it into quartzite.
How do you describe how the granite of a mountain could change first into sandstone and then to quartzite?
Granite must be exposed on the surface for a long time, giving enough time for weathering. The sediments then, could have transported to a basin nearby and consolidated. In geology SAND is referred to grain size in the limits of a geometric scale between 2-1/16 mm. When sediments of the mentioned size are consolidated, it gives rise to SANDSTONE. Some time later, due to tectonic activity (or due to piling up of sediments) the sandstone bed undergone metamorphism (i hope u understand the processes involved) and metamorphosed sandstone is quartzite.
What can granite change into?
granite can change into gnies
How does granite rock change to gniess?
When emplaced granite is subjected to pressures and temperatures from mountain building processes due to tectonic plate movements, the component minerals are essentially realigned perpendicularly to the direction of the stress.
What two factors in the rock cycle may change sandstone to quartzite?
Heat and pressure are the two factors in the rock cycle that can change sandstone to quartzite. Sandstone is subjected to high temperatures and pressure during the metamorphic process, causing the sand grains to recrystallize and cement together, forming quartzite.
What can form core of mountain range?
The core of a mountain range is typically granite even though other items may be topmost. Notable Iron Mountain shows topical abundance of iron even though the core is granite. Pressure on the granite and shifting of plates causes change including creation of mountains.
What does sandstone change to?
That depends on what happens to it. If it is sufficiently heated and compressed it will metamorphose to quartzite.
