The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why don’t rocks burn? – Luke, age 4, New Market, ...

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First, they are not primitive – they are all igneous (products of crystallization from a melt) or modified by impact processing (shock metamorphism, making complex, aggregate rocks called breccias).

These rocks really shouldn't be there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The surprising discovery of volcanic, "igneous ...

Sodalite forms in igneous rocks that crystallized from sodium-rich, silica-poor magmas. That’s how it got its name—soda + lithos, or “sodium stone," according to Rock Your World gem & art ...