How does sedimentary rock become metamorphic rock?

Sedimentary rock becomes metamorphic rock through the addition of heat and/or pressure. Contact metamorphic rocks are those primarily transformed by close proximity to an intrusion of magma, where a recrystallization or elemental transfer can take place. Sedimentary rocks like shale can metamorphose into slate mainly through pressure and heat derived from plate collision, where the alignment of minerals is changed resulting in a foliated texture.

The three types of rocks—igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic—are all subject to processes that change one rock type into another. The images below show several types of rocks undergoing these processes. Just as evaporation and precipitation are processes that move water through the water cycle, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock-forming processes move rocks through the rock cycle.

In this investigation, you’ll examine a detailed example of a rock traveling through the rock cycle.

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