Where in Hawaii can you find metamorphic rocks?
Have you ever heard a someone say metamorphism between butterflies and caterpillars? Two incredible creatures but, formed as one. Caterpillars change into a butterfly, they change forms.
This change in form is the same thing for metamorphic rocks! They're not a specific type of rock, but one that changed form sometime ago.
Metamorphic rocks form the same way sedimentary rocks form, under extreme pressure and temperatures deep beneath Earth's crust. Did you know they can cause tectonic plates to move?
This change in form is the same thing for metamorphic rocks! They're not a specific type of rock, but one that changed form sometime ago.
Metamorphic rocks form the same way sedimentary rocks form, under extreme pressure and temperatures deep beneath Earth's crust. Did you know they can cause tectonic plates to move?
Lava running on the surface of Kilauea's Volcano in Hawaii.
Quartzite- A type of metamorphic rock, do you see the many layers? How many are there?
You will find many of these types of rocks in Greenstone National Park.
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You will find many of these types of rocks in Greenstone National Park.
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How can an igneous rock become a metamorphic rock?
Igneous rocks like granite etc., when exposed to high pressures and temperatures it will eventually change over time to metamorphic rock like limestone to marble. View the following picture below to examine how rocks change.
Igneous rocks like granite etc., when exposed to high pressures and temperatures it will eventually change over time to metamorphic rock like limestone to marble. View the following picture below to examine how rocks change.
Can a sedimentary rock be transformed into an igneous rock, and then into a metamorphic rock?
Yes! It can based on the picture, sedimentary rocks can change into a metamorphic rock are changed by extreme heat and pressure. Weathering and erosion causes a metamorphic rock to change into a sedimentary rock.
Yes! It can based on the picture, sedimentary rocks can change into a metamorphic rock are changed by extreme heat and pressure. Weathering and erosion causes a metamorphic rock to change into a sedimentary rock.