We will follow a pseudo "life" of a rock from igneous to sedimentary to metamorphic and beyond. The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams The rock cycle by ...

Long before we use rocks for these purposes, they undergo a process known plainly as the “rock cycle”, which is a series of processes that create and transform the types of rocks within the Earth’s ...

After simulating rock and heat flow throughout a planet’s lifetime, researchers have proposed that plate tectonics is just one stage of a planet’s life cycle. In the simulation, the Earth’s ...