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weathering, erosion, and compaction.
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What process can change igneous rock into sediment?
erosion/weathering
When sediment turns into sedimentary rock does sedimentary rock turn back to sediment?
Sedimentary rocks can turn back into sediment by a process of weathering and erosion.
What happens to sediment as it change to sedimentary rock?
Erosion deposits sediment.
What is this geologic process called when water splits a rock?
Mechanical weathering.
A river will break down rock into sediment through the process of?
Erosion
What geologic process can change any type of rock into sediment?
Weathering and erosion
What geologic process change granite igneous rock into gneiss metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure cause granite to change to gneiss.
What process can change igneous rock into sediment?
erosion/weathering
Describe the sequence of geologic events represented by an angular unconformity?
sediment made into rock, tilting, erosion, sediment into rock
A break in the rock record deposition of sediment has been interrupted is referred to as a?
A gap in the geologic record of rock formations is called an uncomformity.
When sediment turns into sedimentary rock does sedimentary rock turn back to sediment?
Sedimentary rocks can turn back into sediment by a process of weathering and erosion.
What geogogic process can change any type of rock?
The most powerful geologic forces are air and water; they change mountain ranges into soil and silt.
What happens to sediment as it change to sedimentary rock?
Erosion deposits sediment.
How do rocks change when water in them freezes What is this process called?
it is called sediment,the rock would stay froze it wont change what so ever
What are two ways that a rock layer can cause a gap in geologic record?
When rock layers are eroded or when a sediment is not deposited for a long period of time.
What the rock cycle describe?
The rock cycle describes how rocks are formed, and how they change to sedimentary rock, to metamorphic rock, to magma, to igneous rock, to sediment, and back to sedimentary rock.
What process will turn an igneous rock into a sediment?
Erosion
