The metamorphic versions of other sedimentary rocks like sandstone and shale are well known, at least to home renovators. Quartzite kitchen benches were once sandstone, and slate tiles are the ...

Learn about different types of rocks with these interactive learning resources for KS2 Science students aged 7-11 from BBC Bitesize.

Alternatively, sedimentary rocks take shape when the tiny, weathered fragments of stones are compacted and cemented together. The process begins when rocks, minerals and organic materials — such as ...

Sedimentary rock is comprised of sediment, as the name suggests. Over time, tiny minerals, sand, rocks, and debris layer on ...

“Metamorphic rocks are altered by immense temperature, pressure, or both. Their fabric and texture changes and can keep changing. Even their composition can alter, creating a radically new rock ...

Understanding geology is critical to studying paleontology because fossils are preserved in rock. The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves.

Metamorphic rocks are rocks that, through the process of being buried and heated deep in the Earth's crust, have transformed into a new type of rock. Scientists can measure the depth and temperatures ...

Metamorphic rocks — which have been heated, put under pressure, or both — can grow stronger (harder to break) and heavier. Metamorphic rocks are one of the three main rock types; the other two ...