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Both processes contribute to the rock cycle. Weathered rock particles are eroded. Without agents of erosion (wind, moving water, ice, gravity), weathered particles would remain in the same place. Through erosion, however, weathered particles are carried to new locations and deposited where they could eventually lithify into sedimentary rock, which could then metamorphose into metamorphic rock, and further down the road, melt and re-solidify into igneous rock.

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