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rock cycle

noun

  1. Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.

rock cycle

noun

  1. See geological cycle
    another name for geological cycle

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Origin of rock cycle1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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