| A | B |
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| cementation | The act, process, or result of cementing |
| compaction | The process of compacting or the state of being compacted. |
| cooling | process of going from hot to cold |
| deposition | the process in which water, ice, wind and gravity drop newly formed sediment |
| erosion | the removal and transport of rock and soil by the flow of water and by the actions of gravity, wind and soil |
| heat | the transfer of energy between objects at different temperatures |
| igneous | the type of rock that forms when hot, liquid rock, or magma, cools and hardens |
| magma | hot, molten rock under the Earth's surface |
| melting | change of state from a solid to a liquid |
| metamorphic | the type of rock that forms when existing rocks are heated or squeezed |
| pressure | the amount of force exerted on a given area |
| sedimentary | the type of rock that forms when particles of rock, or sediment, harden into a new rock |
| sedimentation | the process of forming sedimentary rock |
| weathering | the process by which water, ice, heat and wind act to break down rock |
