IGNEOUS: Specifically The Rock Cycle

IGNEOUS: Specifically The Rock Cycle

1. ROCK CYCLE

   • Weathering
     • Transportation
       • Erosion
         • Deposition
           • Burial
             • Compaction
               • Cementation
                 • The sticking together of rock sediment (precipitation of minerals as cement)
             • The process of sediment layers building up over time; by younger layers of sediment
           • The placement/deposit of rock or sediment due to loss of energy
         • Wearing away and smoothing of a rock by transportation
       • The process of a rock being moved (sediment); water/wind/ice/gravity
     • Breaking down of a rock due to either physical/biological/chemical elements
   • MAGMA
     • IGNEOUS
       • SEDIMENTARY
         • METAMORPHIC
           • AND BACK...
       • PROCESS' INCLUDE
         • These...

2. DIAGENESIS

   • All of the previously mentioned processes at low temperatures and pressures at the earths surface (200° + 200 Mpa's)
     • This is what allows sediment from the rock cycle to become sedimentary
     • This process again...