My story began nearly 60 million years ago as hot lava erupted from a volcano. Upon exposure to the cool temperatures of Earth's surface, I immediately solidified into what they call an "extrusive igneous rock".
Since I cooled so quickly from lava to a rock, there was no time for crystals or grains to form, and I was smooth
Being a young volcanic rock was tough. It wasn't easy to withstand the frequent weathering. Ice, wind, and rain scratching me every day. Eventually, I noticed fragments of myself chipping off.
I realized then that I was undergoing erosion. I saw my fragments float away with the rain to a faraway stream. Over the course of 15 million years, I joined my fragments in the stream. It was difficult to say goodbye to my life as an obsidian rock. I could no longer see the ocean either, it was a vast landscape with trees and other rocks everywhere.
Dissolved minerals started crystallizing in the open pores of the rocks, which is what scientists call cementation. The minerals filled the available gaps, creating a more stable and cohesive form of my new self. I remember that I was a clastic sedimentary rock because my composition consisted of sand, gravel, and other assorted rock fragments.
While underground my sediments got pushed together with extreme heat and pressure that started to turn me into a metamorphic rock.
Then finally after a few million years I transformed into a metamorphic rock and that was my final stage in the rock cycle.The End.
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