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Geology Explained
The rock cycle, plate tectonics, how a pegmatite grows crystals the size of a forearm, why one hillside is limestone and the next is granite. Geology explains why anything is anywhere, and a little of it turns a random rock pile into a readable map.
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How Geodes Form (and Why Some Are Empty)
How geodes form: gas bubbles or dissolved cavities lined by groundwater depositing quartz and chalcedony, and why some turn up empty instead of packed.
read noteIgneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic: The Rock Cycle Without the Textbook Fog
The rock cycle explained in plain language: how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock transform into each other over geologic time.
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