Rise To Surface

LAVA

Outgassing

CO2, H2O, SOX

Cooling / X-tallization

Extrusive Igneous Rocks

Weathering

Physical

Chemical

Erosion & Deposition

BurialCompaction & Cementation

Heat and Pressure WITHOUT MELTING

(Re x-tallization)

Cooling / X-tallization

Heating past melting point

Sediments

Sedimentary Layers

Dissolved Minerals

Sedimentary Rocks

Heat and Pressure WITHOUT MELTING

Metamorphic Rocks

Intrusive Igneous Rocks

Evaporite Chemical

Rocks

Rise To Surface

Heat and Pressure WITHOUT MELTING

Heating past melting point

Rise To Surface

Heating past melting point

Click here for FL’s Image Bank

Magma under Hawaii

The eruption of

Mt. St. Helens (May 1980)

Click here to see a few post eruption photos

Lava Flows on the Big Island of Hawaii

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Flooding on the

Obion River (May, 2002)

Bryce Canyon (see EPOD pages here)

Layers of Sediment

Banded and Distorted Metamorphic Rocks

Gneiss (Katonah, NY) Schist (Two Lights State Park, ME)

Large crystals in an intrusive rock (Boulder, CO)

Uplifted, Tilted, and Exposed by Erosion

Sedimentary Rock Layers (near Morrison, CO)

Lava Flows (Mauna Loa, Hawaii)

Sedimentary Rocks(Grand Canyon, CO)

Salt Flats(Death Valley, CA)