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ORIGIN OF ROCKS

Glacier Mountain stream (conglomerate) Alluvial fan (sandstone, conglomerate) Meandering stream (sand, shale) Swamp (shale, coal) Beach (sandstone) Lagoon (rock salt) Shelf (limestone) Delta (shale with sandstone)

Reef (limestone)

Slope/Rise

Dunes (sandstone)

CONTINENTAL CRUST

OCEANIC CRUST

Basalt Gabbro

LITHOSPHERE

UPPER MANTLE

ASTHENOSPHERE

Ocean (chalk, limestone, shale)

Sea level

DIVERGENT Plate Boundary CONVERGENT Plate Boundary


Andesite Tephra and Lava

Diorite Plutons Basaltic Lava Regional Metamorphism Schist Gneiss


SU BD UC TIO

Contact Metamorphism

Basaltic Magma

Basalt Gabbro

Slate

Granite Plutons

Rhyolitic Magma
NZ ON E
Partial melting of lower crust

PERIDOTITE
Partial melting of mantle

Andesitic Magma
Partial melting of mantle

MAGMA

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