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Books are of three great classes or groups distinguished according to their mode of origin. They vary greatly in physical and chemical character We have been familiar from childhood with stories of volcanic eruptions in which stream of melted rock called lava flow from crater-topped mountains, bringing desolation to any living thing in their courses. Cold, solidified lava exemplifies a large and diverse group of rocks which have similarly cool ed and solidified from a molten, fluid, hot state. This group includes such oeu'mu examples as granite, some of the trap rocks of commerce, and pumice stone. Because such rocks are fire-born they are called igous mcks. Igneous rocks are usually even grained with little or no banding of their crystalline, mineral constituents. When the minerals that compose them can be seen, we find them scattered helter-skelter through the uses. But even the hardest granite my weather to sand and and. We may see this process going on in ledges exposed to the wind and the rain, the frosts of winter and summer suns. This mud and sand, transported elsewhere, become sedimnts. When laid down in the beds of streams or lakes or' the ocean bottom these sediments my in time be hardened into sediments rocks. The sedimntary rocks are the se ond great class. They are usually recognized by their bedded or stratified habit, each bed commonly composed of grains derived from older, broken-up rock: There are mny kinds of sediluentary'r'ooks; we need mention only four: (1) shale, indurated (hardened) mud, (2) sandstone mde up of cemented sand grains.
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