The diagram illustrates how different types of rocks are created with the help of processes in the earth’s rock cycle. Overall, there are approximately 9 stages which form three types of rock – sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic. It presents how not only things below Earth’s surface, but also above are fundamental in transforming.
Igneous rock starts its creation from magma, an extremely hot rock fluid. When magma colds it experiences crystallization and provides for this special type of rock a slow uplift to the surface.
Once rocks reach above they go through weathering and erosion. The resulting particles are transported and deposited as a sedimentation. Over a period, rocks undergo compaction and cementation forming sedimentary types.
When sedimentary rock and igneous ones are buried deep in the ground, high temperature and pressures play a cruel role in transformation. It makes particles change their outlook into metamorphic rock and as everything appears in the hill top. Beside these, some rocks may be pushed in completely different way and undergo melting, which soon will be a part of magma.
