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During the rock cycle, rocks get broken apart by weathering, carried along by erosion, and eventually deposited in a body of water. What happens next?

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Compaction and cementation into sedimentary rock, then heat and pressure into metamorphic rock. this is correct answer

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After many years of pressure and possibly heat it will be compressed back into a form of rock such as sediment.
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