Find out how magma has created igneous rock features with this BBC Bitesize Scotland article for P5, P6, P7 - Second Level CfE ...

Sedimentary rock is comprised of sediment, as the name suggests. Over time, tiny minerals, sand, rocks, and debris layer on top of one another, with the pressure of the layers of ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old ...

Metamorphic rocks form from a previously existing rock, be it igneous, sedimentary or even an older metamorphic rock. Rocks turn metamorphic when they are subjected to very high heat and pressure.

Igneous rock is formed by the cooling of molten rock, either at the surface (lava), or underground (as granite or other similar rocks). The heat of molten rock usually incinerates organisms rather ...

This strip of igneous rock was formed when hot magma pushed upward through the Earth's crust during the Jurassic Period, somewhere between 192 and 186 million years ago.

Sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock groups (along with igneous and metamorphic rocks) and is formed in four main ways: by the deposition of the weathered remains of other rocks (known ...

For instance, volcanic blasts produce plumes of ash that occasionally bury organisms. Before their bodies are burned away by the torrents of magma, that are spewed onto the surface of the planet, they ...