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How can sandstone be transformed into sediment without becoming metamorphic or igneous rock first?

April 26, 2017earth Geology minerals physical rocks sandstone sciences sediment transformed

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How can sandstone be transformed into sediment without becoming metamorphic or igneous rock first?

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You’ve got everything backwards. Sediment becomes sandstone, but heat and pressure can transform it into a metamorphic rock. It will never become igneous. Time to go back and reread your textbook.