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Lithification is a process of

forming sedimentary rock.

What type of sedimentary rocks form the breakdown of plants

Biogenic.

Why are no rocks found that date from the first 800 million years of earths existence

Earth was too hot to have solid rocks at that time.

Blocks of rocks falling into magma

Stoping

Change in a rock resulting from a meteorite

impact metamorphism

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