Rocks & Minerals Information and The Rock Cycle
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| Minerals | Rocks are made from these natural nonliving solid crystals .
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| Cenozoic | The most recent period of the Geologic Time Scale
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| Hardness | The property of rocks that describes how easily it can be scratched by another rock
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| Streak | The property of rocks that is the color of the powder that it leaves when it is scratched against a special plate
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| Diamond | The hardest rock on the MOH's Scale for hardness
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| Talc | The softest rock on the MOH's Scale for hardness
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| Erosion | The process where water, ice, wind, and/or gravity carries bits of rock, soil, shells, and dead organism materials from one place to another
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| Sediments | Eroded materials that settle on land or at the bottom of waterways, including lakes, river, or oceans
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| Sedimentary Rocks | Rocks formed when sediments are cemented together by pressure and clay materials, then harden
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| Fossils | The remains of living things that are found in sedimentary rocks
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| Magma | Partially melted rock UNDER the Earth's crust
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| Pumice | The type of igneous rock formed with many airholes, allowing it to float on water
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| Igneous Rocks | Rocks that are formed from cooled lava
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| Metamorphic Rocks | The type of rocks that have been changed completely as a result of heat and pressure
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| Rock Cycle | The ongoing process that changes one type of rock into another
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| Shale | The sedimentary rock from which the metamorphic rock slate may be formed
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| Limestone | The sedimentary rock from which the metamorphic rock marble may be formed
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| Quartz | The igneous rock from which the metamorphic rock gneiss may be formed
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| Precambrian | The oldest period of the Geologic Time Scale
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| Luster | The property of rocks that describes the way it reflects light
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