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What are three processes that a metamorphic rock must experience before it can become a sedimentary rock?
Metamorphic rocks must first undergo weathering, erosion, and transport to break down the original rock into sediment. Then, the sediment is deposited and undergoes compaction and cementation to form sedimentary rocks.
What must happen to an igneous rock before it can become a sedimentary or metamorphic rock?
To become a sedimentary rock, an igneous rock must first be weathered, and then eroded, and then deposited as a sediment, and then consolidated (e.g. by cementation or pressure welding of grains.) To become a metamorphic rock it must be transformed by heat and pressure, which it can do directly (e.g. granite turning into gneiss) or after first turning into a sedimentary rock.
What are two things that could happen to a metamorphic rock to continue the rock cycle?
Metamorphic rocks can melt into magma and then undergo cooling and crystallization to become an igneous rock. Or, they can undergo weathering and erosion into sediments and then lithify to become sedimentary rocks. +++ They can melt and become magma only if subducted - a process normally confined to the sea-floor plate.
How does metamorphic rock turn into another type of rock?
Metamorphic rock can turn into another type of rock through processes like weathering and erosion, which break down the rock into sediment. This sediment can then undergo compaction and cementation to form sedimentary rock, or melt and cool to form igneous rock through processes like metamorphism.
Is sand a metamorphic?
No. Sandstone is sedimentary rock, where the individual grains of sand that compose the rock are visible without magnification. These individual grains of sand (sediment) have become compacted and cemented together in a process called lithification, forming a sedimentary rock.Metamorphic rock can be formed from virtually any parent rock (protolith) that has been subjected to heat and/or pressure, modifying its texture or mineral composition.Quartz sandstone, when metamorphosed, becomes the metamorphic rock 'quartzite'.
How can a metamorphic rock change into another rock?
Yes. A metamorphic rock can be metamorphosed into a higher-grade metamorphic rock. It can be weather into sediment and re-lithified into a sedimentary rock, or it can melt then solidify to become an igneous rock.
How metamorphic rock becomes sediment?
Well, first before the sediment can become to a metamorphic rock, it has to create into a sedimentary rock or an igneous rock, Then the rocks go under the ground and is under tons and tons of pressure, which fosters heat build up, and this causes them to change.
How can a metamorphic rock turn into sedimentary rock and then back to metamorphic?
metamorphic rock melts turns into lava,lava cools turns into igneous rock,igneous rock is weathered and eroded into sediment,sediment turns into sedimentary rocksedimentary rock gets heated and squeezed forms metamorphic rockcycle continues.......
What clastic sedimentary rock is made from finest sediment?
Metamorphic rock
How can sedimentary rock becomes a metamorphic rock?
When the metamorphic rock breaks down into sediment. Thus, making the new rock sedimentary because when sediment forms together over time it makes it sedimentary rock
How can metamorphic become igneous rock?
Metamorphic rock can melt under the surface of the earth, and the harden into an Igneous rock. As an Igneous, it could crystalize, or break down into sediment where it can become either Igneous or Sedimentary.
How rocks become sediment?
Well, first before the sediment can become to a metamorphic rock, it has to create into a sedimentary rock or an igneous rock, Then the rocks go under the ground and is under tons and tons of pressure, which fosters heat build up, and this causes them to change.
How does metamorphic turns to sedemantary?
Sedimentary rock is rock that has been worn away and turned into sediment such as sand. That sediment is then compacted together and turned into rock. So metamorphic rock wears away and compacts into sedimentary rock
What are three processes that a metamorphic rock must experience before it can become a sedimentary rock?
Metamorphic rocks must first undergo weathering, erosion, and transport to break down the original rock into sediment. Then, the sediment is deposited and undergoes compaction and cementation to form sedimentary rocks.
What rock forms when sediment is squezed into layers by the weight of the rock above it?
Metamorphic rock.
How can an igneous rock become a metamorphic?
A metamorphic rock can become a igneous rock by melting and cooling
What processes can transform metamorphic rock into sediment?
weathering and erosion
