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Every rock is igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic, and any of the three can become another.

Earth Science Facts, sourced to U.S. National Park Service.

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The three names describe how a rock was made rather than what it is made of. Igneous rock froze from a melt, sedimentary rock was laid down in layers and pressed, and metamorphic rock was cooked and squeezed into something new. The categories are a loop rather than a list: a granite worn to sand becomes sandstone, a buried sandstone becomes quartzite, and a quartzite pulled deep enough melts and starts the cycle again.

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