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What does sedimentary limestone turn into when heat and pressure is applied?
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Marble, an intermediate grade metamorphic rock.
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What 2 things are applied to igneous or sedimentary rocks that make metamorphic rocks form?
Heat and pressure!!
Which metamorphic rock is formed from marble?
Limestone is typically the product of accumulated decomposed marine life as it settles to the bottom of a body of water.This sedimentary rock, laid down in earlier geological ages, is the starting material for marble.When limestone is exposed to geological pressure and heat, it changes (metamorphosizes) into marble.The metamorphic stone known as marble is highly alkaline, like limestone, but is far less porous (permeable), and much denser and harder.Marble quarries are areas of the earth that were once sea bottoms, then were exposed, through tectonic plate activity, to great heat and pressure.
What forms inside a limestone?
Limestone or chalk is a sedimentary rock composed of Calcium carbonate or calcium carbonate compounds where the inner core may undergo change by heat and pressure to become hard chert.However when it undergoes metamorphosis by extreme heat and pressure over time it turns into marble.
What sedimentary rock changes when heat or pressure is added to it?
All sedimentary rock change with heat and pressure. They turn into metamorphic rocks.
Which type of rock is formed from tiny particles of sand shells pebbles?
No, in order to be a metamorphic rock, it has to be a rock that undergoes extreme heat and pressure. What you're describing is the formation of a sedimentary rock called a limestone.
Into what rock does limestone metamorphose?
When limestone changes, in most commonly forms marble.
What happens when heat and pressure is applied to sedimentary rock?
The rock is metamorphosed: meaning its physical and/or chemical properpties are altered. E.g., limestone to marble.
What sedimentary rock can be transformed by heat and pressure into marble?
Limestone and dolostone.
When heat and pressure is applied to sedimentary rock it changes into what?
Diamond
Is limestone a medaphic rock?
A what rock...?Limestone is sedimentary - the other two classes are igneous and metamorphic.Limestone will metamorphose in suitable conditions of heat and pressure, into marble.
How would Sedimentary rock turn to metamorphic?
Sedimentary rock that is exposed to heat and pressure will be changed to (metamophised) into metamorphic rock. This is often associated with volcanic activity. An example is limestone, when exposed to the pressure and heat can be changed to marble.
What causes fracturing of sedimentary rocks?
Any force applied on it, erosion, pressure and heat from underground.
What 2 things are applied to igneous or sedimentary rocks that make metamorphic rocks form?
Heat and pressure!!
Is this true or false sedimentary rocks can be turned into metamorphic rocks when heat and pressure is applied?
that is definitely true!
What does a sedimentary rock before it can turn into a metamorphic rock?
Not sure what you are trying to ask. Sedimentary rocks form from sediments, but can be metamorphosed only by applied heat &/or pressure.
Which metamorphic rock is formed from marble?
Limestone is typically the product of accumulated decomposed marine life as it settles to the bottom of a body of water.This sedimentary rock, laid down in earlier geological ages, is the starting material for marble.When limestone is exposed to geological pressure and heat, it changes (metamorphosizes) into marble.The metamorphic stone known as marble is highly alkaline, like limestone, but is far less porous (permeable), and much denser and harder.Marble quarries are areas of the earth that were once sea bottoms, then were exposed, through tectonic plate activity, to great heat and pressure.
What makes a sedimentary or igneous rock form to a metamorphic rock?
heat and pressure is applied to the rock and it becomes a metamorphic rock.
