I know I promised a post about Bengal Tigers, and don't worry, it'll be up soon. But in my spare time I wrote a science fiction story about the rock cycle called From Magma to Mineral. I wanted to share it with you!
From
Magma
to
Mineral
A sci-fi story explaining the rock cycle
My name is Akane. Brilliant red. I started out beneath the earth’s surface as magma. For years I stayed there; hidden from the eyes of anyone. Then I began to get pushed up. It was cooler here. I began to cool down. I felt my liquid body harden and trap me. I was an ingneous rock.
I kept on getting pushed up until I finally broke the surface of the earth. I stayed there for a while before waves began to bash against me. It hurt. A lot. I was in pieces, I was sediment. It was horrible- being broken up like that. Then something began to seep down between the peices of me. Whatever it was fused me together again. Differently, yes, but together all the same.
I continued on as siltstone. Then the plates shifted. I fell down, down down. I was warped and changed and I was heated to my limit. I liquified. I stayed as magma for a long while. I bubbled up again and crystallized as granite. I got heated again and warped once more, though I didn’t liquify this time. I was metamorphic rock.
Water bashed against me and I broke apart again. oh, HOW I HATED THIS PAIN! But Iwas fused again. I was happy to be whole. Yet it happened again. I was broken. Then I was pushed downward and I melted. Today I am still magma.
I hope you liked the story!
