Rock Cycle Explorations
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Rock Cycle Explorations
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At the lighthouse headland, Zach finds a dark rock with small crystals. Harper spots a pale rock made of rounded grains pressed into layers. On a nearby cliff, a rock has wavy bands of light and dark minerals. The headland is made of ancient rocks, but waves, wind and rain are continually breaking exposed surfaces into smaller pieces. Some grains are carried offshore and settle on the sea floor. Deep underground, buried rocks may be heated or squeezed; if rock becomes hot enough to melt, it forms magma. Over long periods, uplift can expose buried rocks at the surface.
- Igneous
- Sedimentary
- Metamorphic
- All rocks form this way
- Dark rock with small crystals
- Rounded grains pressed into layers
- Wavy bands of light and dark minerals
- Sedimentary
- Metamorphic
- Igneous
- Cooling, melting, eruption
- Weathering and erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation
- Heat and pressure, melting, cooling
- Uplift, crystallisation, weathering
- Weathering
- Erosion
- Cooling and crystallisation
- Compaction and cementation
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