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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.

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Is breccia a sedimentary metamorphic or igneous rock?

Yes. In the rock cycle, any sedimentary rock can be transformed into a metamorphic rock due to deep burial where the rock is changed by the earth's high temperature and pressure, an exposure to a plutonic intrusion, where rocks such as granite are formed, or any other process where heat and pressure alter the composition, appearance, and classification of a rock. An igneous rock can turn into a metamorphic rock or a sedimentary rock. A metamorphic rock can turn into an igneous rock or a sedimentary rock, and a sedimentary rock can turn into an igneous rock or a metamorphic rock.


What can metamorphism do?

metamorphism is when a Igneous and sedimentary rocks turn into metamorphic rock.


Does a rock go through the complete rock cycle by changing from igneous rock to sedimentary to metamorphic?

Yes, it can. However, an igneous rock can change to a metamorphic rock skipping sedimentary: the tectonic plates can push igneous rock deep into the ground, forming metamorphic rock. Sedimentary can form metamorphic, metamorphic can form magma or lava by melting and/or erupting and then turn into igneous. Igneous forms sedimentary with erosion, deposition compaction, and cementation.


What rocks can granite turn in to?

Granites can turn into metamorphic, sedimentary, or igneous rock through metamorphosis.


What changes are involved when mud from a lake bottom turns into a sedimentary rock then into a metamorphic rock?

The sediments on the lake bottom undergo lithification and become sedimentary rock. Further compaction, pressure, and heat turn it into metamorphic rock.

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What would happen to a metamorphic rock that was wheathered and broken down into sediments?

The sediments made of the metamorphic rock would turn into sedimentary rock.


What type of rock may sedimentary rock turn into?

Metamorphic or new sedimentary rock.


What type of rock does sedimentary rock turn into when it is buried?

metamorphic


What type of rocks cannot turn into sedimentary rocks?

No rock. Any rock can turn into sedimentary rock, such as granite (igneous rock) and slate (metamorphic rock). Even sedimentary rock can turn into other sedimentary rock.


Is breccia a sedimentary metamorphic or igneous rock?

Yes. In the rock cycle, any sedimentary rock can be transformed into a metamorphic rock due to deep burial where the rock is changed by the earth's high temperature and pressure, an exposure to a plutonic intrusion, where rocks such as granite are formed, or any other process where heat and pressure alter the composition, appearance, and classification of a rock. An igneous rock can turn into a metamorphic rock or a sedimentary rock. A metamorphic rock can turn into an igneous rock or a sedimentary rock, and a sedimentary rock can turn into an igneous rock or a metamorphic rock.


Can any sedimentary rock turn into any metamorphic rock?

no, it can't


What rock does sedimentary rock turn into at the ocean when erosion occurs?

metamorphic


What can extreme pressure and temperature do to a sedimentary rock?

Turn it into metamorphic rock.


Explain how a metamorphic rock can be changed into a sedimentary rock?

It's the other way around: How does a sedimentary rocks turn into a metamorphic rocks? The answers is: "By heat and pressure". Metamorphic rocks never turn into sedimentary rocks.


Can igneous rock and sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock turn into magma?

no it can't


What causes to a sedimentary rock or a metamorphic rock that turn into an igneous rock?

Melting.


How does metamorphic rock turn to sedimentary rock?

Sedimentary rocks get turned in to metamorphic rocks by heat and pressure. They get heated by magma and convection currents, which causes the rock to change.