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Liquid magma that reaches earth's surface
Lava
A type of rock that forms from cooling and hardening magma or lava
Igneous rock
The molten material beneath or within the Earth's crust, from which igneous rock is formed
Magma
A break or crack in the Earth's crust along which rocks move
Fault
The thin layer of solid rock that forms Earth's outer surface mantle
Crust
The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock or soil
Erosion
The transformation by heat and pressure
Metamorphic
The most common rock type in Vermont
Metamorphic
The company that will shut you down if you are not following proper regulations while mining
MSHAW
These are constantly being pushed up and forming, but also being worn down
Mountains
A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks, or the remains of planets and animals, are pressed and cemented together
Sedimentary
The hardest rock known is
Diamond
A series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rock from one kind to another
Rock cycle
I am used to separate gold and gravel
Sluice
This process is one of the easiest ways to extract gold
Gold panning
I am a liquid metal often used when melting down gold
Mercury
The thick layer of hot, dense, rocky matter found below the Earth's crust and surrounding the Earth's core
Mantle
They say if you if you find this you will find gold, but you will not always find it if you find gold first
Quartz
The section of the Earth's crust that are slowly moving - about as fast as your fingernails grow
Tectonic plate
The process of which these are formed and driven by plate tectonics
The rock cycle
The chemical and physical processes that break down rocks exposed to air, moisture, and organic matter at Earth's surface
Weathering
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Rock music
I refer to the purity of gold
Karat
The process by which the collision of two plates in Earth's crust results in one plate being drawn back down into the mantle
Subduction
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson