help please 13. Is the following statement true or false? Explain your 15. Rocks

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13. Is the following statement true or false? Explain your 15. Rocks that are forming today reasoning: A mineral that Jorms onby ty igneous processes cannot be found in a sedimentary rock. a. will be unchanged throughout the rest of geologic time. b. are very different from those that formed in the 14. Is the following statement true or false? Explain your reasoning: mineral can form in only one kind or rock (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic), but not in more han one. past. c. recycle materials from previously existing rock. d. are made of materials that fall on Earth from space.

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13. False.

When the igneous rocks are subjected to weathering the minerals dissolve to form clay minerals which later can be transferred in sedimentary rock. So there is chance of finding igneous minerals in sedimentary rocks.

14. False

Igneous and metamorphic rocks have minerals formation as a basic step for the formation of the rocks.

15. c. recycle materials from previously existing rock.

The plates at subduction zone will melt and then magma will form new rock. The sedimentary rock forming will form from the minerals of weathered rock. So everywhere the raw material is recycled.

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