Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Rock Cycle
- Erosion/weathering
- rivers transport &
deposit - fluvial deposition
- Deposited marine sediment
- Pressure causes lithofication
- compaction &
cementation
- SEDIMENTARY ROCK
- Slow uplift to
surface
- burial, high temps.
& pressures
- METAMORPHIC ROCK
- Subduction =
Melting
- Intrusive IGNEOUS
ROCK
- Magma from molten
crust & mantle
- Extrusive IGNEOUS
ROCK