List and describe the three common processes that cause rocks to experience increasing temperature after they form

What will be an ideal response?


Rock or sediments must achieve a depth sufficient to be impacted by the geothermal gradient by 1) sediment burial in a subsiding basin; 2) faulting of one block of crust over another, (3) magma intrusion which transfers heat to the rock also increases temperature.

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