Before a rock can become an igneous rock, it must undergo melting to transform from solid rock into molten magma or lava. Once this molten material cools and solidifies, either beneath the Earth's surface (forming intrusive igneous rocks) or on the surface following a volcanic eruption (forming extrusive igneous rocks), it becomes igneous rock.
Before a rock can become an igneous rock, it must undergo melting to form magma. This typically occurs when rocks are subjected to high temperatures and pressures, often in subduction zones or at mid-ocean ridges. Once the magma rises to the surface or cools underground, it solidifies to form igneous rock. The cooling process can happen rapidly, resulting in extrusive igneous rocks, or slowly, producing intrusive igneous rocks.
it has to go through melting and solidification in order to become an igneous rock.
It doesn't have to. Most rocks exposed at the surface will erode and become sedimentary, but igneous rock that is underground can be remelted and become another igneous rock, or can become metamorphic.
For igneous rocks to become part of sedimentary rocks, they must first undergo weathering and erosion, breaking down into smaller particles. These particles are then transported by water, wind, or ice and eventually deposited in layers. Over time, the accumulated sediments are compacted and cemented together through lithification processes, resulting in the formation of sedimentary rock.
It must melt.
it needs to cool down
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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.
Two processes a rock must undergo before becoming an igneous rock are melting, where the rock is heated to a point where it turns into magma, and cooling, where the magma solidifies to form an igneous rock.
As soon as the lava hardens, it is considered an igneous rock.
It must become a great ball of fire
Erosion Deposition Burial and Cementing
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erosion
Igneous rock must weather and erode into smaller pieces and grains through processes like physical and chemical weathering. These sediments then accumulate, are buried, and undergo compaction and cementation to form sedimentary rock.
it has to go through melting and solidification in order to become an igneous rock.
It doesn't have to. Most rocks exposed at the surface will erode and become sedimentary, but igneous rock that is underground can be remelted and become another igneous rock, or can become metamorphic.