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All the classes of rocks. The igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
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What rocks are not formed by the rock cycle?
Some extraterrestrial rocks were not formed via the terrestrial rock cycle.
What forces are in the rock cycle?
Sedimentary rocks are formed when other rocks (igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary) are weathered and eroded and their sediments are compacted and cemented together. Metamorphic rocks can be formed when heat and pressure is applied to any type of existing rock. Igneous rocks are formed when magma cools. The magma can be made up of melted rocks of any kind (sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic). The cycle repeats itself all the time and all of the rocks can come from any other kind of rock.
How is the rock cycle formed?
it is formed by broken down rocks
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 rocks are formed from broken rocks?
Clastic sedimentary rocks and Cataclasites (a form of metamorphic rock) are formed from broken rocks.
The process by which rocks are formed is called?
rock cycle
In the rock cycle what is formed when igneous rocks weather?
Sediment
What kind of rock is formed from rocks sediments?
Sedimentary rock.
What kind of rock does a metamorphic rock start as?
Metamorphic rocks are formed from sedimentary rocks.
What sentence could you use for the word rock cycle?
The rock cycle is the best way to learn about how rocks are formed.
What kind of rock is formed form sediments?
Sedimentary rock.
What kind of rock are fossils formed in?
sedimentary rocks.
