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Learn how rocks result from magma or lava, form into layers over time, or are transformed by environmental factors.
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Subduction zones are places where two of the Earth’s plates collide, with one descending beneath the other.
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Molten rock is called magma when it’s below the earth’s surface, or lava on the surface. Learn how igneous rocks are formed.
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In 1983, lava flows from the Kilauea volcano began to encroach upon the Royal Gardens area on the island of Hawaii.
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A chain of 107 volcanoes – some islands, some submerged – extends from Hawaii to the northwest.
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The most important clues about the early stages of the solar system come from meteorites.
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The 1,200-kilometer-long San Andreas fault zone is part of the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates, and thus is known as a transform fault.
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In order to understand geological processes, we need to envision time periods far greater than the hourly, daily, and yearly progression that dominates our everyday lives.
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It is the right distance from the Sun, it is protected from harmful solar radiation by its magnetic field, it is kept warm by an insulating atmosphere, and it has the right chemical ingredients for…
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