What happens to the rock fragments that get buried after a long time?

Answer 1

It depends how deep it is buried. If it is just covered with more and more sediment, it will compact and cement to become sedimentary rock. If it is buried to the point where it gets into the mantle or a comparable area, it can become melted into an igneous rock or baked and altered into a metamorphic rock.

Answer 2

Rock fragments that are buried a long time could, repeat, could become part of lithified sedimentary particles that form new sedimentary rock. Fragments could also become soil. Much depends on the depth of burial and other geologic processes.

Answer 3

The rock fragments could undergo compaction and cementation in a sedimentary rock forming process known as lithification.

Answer 4

The rock fragments that have been buried for a long time is lithified to form sedimentary rocks. Lithification usually involves compaction and cementation.

Answer 5

I am pretty sure that they turn into a different kind of rock overtime

Answer 6

it becomes hotter and when its gets nearer to the core it will eventually melt.

Answer 7

A erosion would take them

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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