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Metamorphism
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/metamorphism/The word metamorphism comes from Greek and means 'change of form'. Metamorphic rocks are pre-existing rocks whose mineral composition and/or texture has been changed by processes within the Earth.
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A Cave Made to Order
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-a-cave-made-to-order/The Australian Museum used to have its own richly-decorated limestone cave
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Earthquakes and tsunamis
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/earthquakes-and-tsunamis/What causes earthquakes and why do tsunamis often follow a large earthquake?
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Mineral properties
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/properties/Minerals can be identified using a number of properties. These include physical and chemical properties such as hardness, density, cleavage and colour, crystallography, electrical conductivity, magnetism, radioactivity and fluorescence.
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Opal
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/opal/Facts about Opal.
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Magma
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/magma/Magma is hot molten mobile rock. Igneous rocks form when magma cools and solidifies. Magmas come out of active volcanoes as lavas.
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Characteristics of sediments
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/characteristics-of-sediments/Sediments can be classified by their characteristics, which relate to how they have been transported and weathered and how far from their original source they have been deposited.
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Sedimentary structures
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/sedimentary-structures/Sedimentary structures can be of either physical (e.g. wave action) or biological (e.g. disruption of sediments by animals) origin.
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Soils
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/soils/Soils are made up of three layers and are thickest where they are older and in warm and wet environments.
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Volcanic rocks
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/volcanic-rocks/Volcanic rocks are divided into three main types: basaltic, volcaniclastic and pyroclastic.
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