The Earth itself is not a proactive agent, it is Earth processes that cause change. These Earth processes are driven by the heat in Earth's core and incident Solar radiation.
Processes at Earth's surface cause the weathering and breakdown of exposed rocks and the sediments which result from this get transported and deposited to form new Sedimentary rocks.
Movements of the continental plates causes rocks comprising the crust to be buried deeper, squashed and heated (sometimes to the point of melting - making new Igneous rocks) and in this new environment new minerals and fabrics form in the rocks which are now called Metamorphic rocks.
Over geologic time these processes repeat in what is called the "Rock Cycle".
metamorphism: reaching the parent rock's threshold for either temperature and/or pressure causes a change in the rock facies.
It is called the Rock Cycle.
No every rock is able to change into anther
A volcano is made of extrusive igneous rock. The specific type of igneous rock will vary from one volcano to another.
The environmetal factors (temperature, pressure, chemical reactions, bacteries) provoke change of rocks.
nope < they are like snowflakes all one of a kind . i think they are all the same because sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock can change into one another during the rock cycle so yes they are the same
rocks can change from one type of rock to another, or not change at all
metamorphosis
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It is called the Rock Cycle.
rock cycle
The rock cycle
yes it can- metamorphic has to change into one type of rock after it is changed from another.
an igneous rock can be left out and have weathering erosion crush it sorta and make sediments and have the sediments be cemented and turned into a sedimentary rock
The rock cycle is how one type of rock can be changed into another type of rock.
metamorphism: reaching the parent rock's threshold for either temperature and/or pressure causes a change in the rock facies.
The rock cycle is the process through which rocks change from one type to another. This process includes melting, metamorphism, uplift, weathering, and burial. Metamorphism is specifically the change of pre-existing rock into new rock through pressure and temperature.
the rock cycle