Chapter 2(Part 1)

Chapter 2: (Picture Rock Cycle)

I. Rock Cycle

   A.Shows the relations among the three rock types

   B.Proposed by James Hutton in the late 1700s

   C.The cycle

      1.Magma

         a.Crystallization 

      2.Igneous rock

         a.Weathering 

         b.Transportation

         c.Deposition 

      3.Sediment 

         a.Lithification

      4.Sedimentary rock

         a.Metamorphism

      5.Metamorphic Rock

         a. Melting 

      6. Magma