Question

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?

Answer 1

Answer:

Sedimentary rocks get layered and they transform in Metamorphic rocks

Explanation:

Hutton´s Rock cycle is a fully cyclical process, which means it is an everlasting cycle.

Igneous Rocks are formed with the cooling of the magma and will eventually outcrop or be erupted by a volcano.

After igneous rocks are deposited and cooled by processes like weathering, erosion, and transportation take place, breaking down the rocks and forming sediments that usually end up in riversides. In there these rocks are exposed to a series of erosional processes where they break down forming sediments on riverbeds or continue the river flow until they get deposited on the low basin. After strong compaction and cementation sedimentary rocks are formed. These rocks get layered trough time and buried deep where there is an increase in pressure and heat which leads to the formation of Metamorphic rocks.

Metamorphic rocks are gradually buried and get to enough pressures that they start melting, transforming eventually on Magma. Then the cycle repeats.

Answer 2

Compaction and cementation into sedimentary rock, then heat and pressure into metamorphic rock.

or

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