Sedimentary rock, it first forms tallus
Granite is an igneous rock formed from the cooling of molten magma. It does not directly turn into a sedimentary rock through metamorphism. Instead, it can be weathered and eroded to form sediment, which may then become sedimentary rock through compaction and cementation processes.
Sedimentary rock
More of it will be weathered and eroded.
An intrusive igneous rock that has been crushed into sand is commonly known as "granite sand." Granite is a common intrusive rock type that forms from the slow cooling of magma below the Earth's surface. When granite is weathered and eroded over time, it can break down into smaller particles, including sand.
The Granite mountain becomes weathered and eroded by surface processes and the debris is carried off and separated into its sandy components by water flowing in rivers. The sandy sediments pile up and become buried by more sediments and as this happens they fuse together to form a new sandstone rock. Should this new rock become involved in a continental collision that heats up and squashes the sandstone rock this will metamorphose into a quartzite.
Granite is an igneous rock formed from the cooling of molten magma. It does not directly turn into a sedimentary rock through metamorphism. Instead, it can be weathered and eroded to form sediment, which may then become sedimentary rock through compaction and cementation processes.
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.
When a rock is weathered or eroded, it can become sedimentary rock. This process involves the breakdown and transportation of rock particles, which then accumulate and eventually form sedimentary rocks through processes like compaction and cementation.
Any rock outcropping at a shoreline.
It would have to be weathered & the fragments cemented together.
Sedimentary rock
It can change when it is eroded and weathered.
More of it will be weathered and eroded.
An intrusive igneous rock that has been crushed into sand is commonly known as "granite sand." Granite is a common intrusive rock type that forms from the slow cooling of magma below the Earth's surface. When granite is weathered and eroded over time, it can break down into smaller particles, including sand.
The granite has to be weathered, and then the resulting material has to be eroded and subjected to a process that sorts the quartz grains from the other minerals in the granite. Quartz grains tend to be harder than other clasts in weathered granite, so they tend to remain intact while mica and feldspar are reduced to a fine clay. The quartz sand may then settle out of water where the clay does not, or be left behind when the clay blows away in the wind.
When sedimentary rock is weathered in nature by chemical or mechanical means, the particles that are produced can be eroded and deposited, becoming sediments.
Yes, igneous rocks can be metamorphosed or weathered and eroded.