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Where will the next volcano erupt in Australia?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-where-next-volcano-erupt-in-australia/The volcanic future of Australia is revealed.
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Types of metamorphism
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/types-of-metamorphism/There are several different types of metamorphism, including dynamic, contact, regional, and retrogressive metamorphism, that form and shape rocks.
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Water and sedimentary transport
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/water-and-sedimentary-processes/Water plays a vital role in most sedimentary processes. Pure water itself has little effect on rocks. It is the dissolved gases in water, particularly carbon dioxide, that cause the chemical decay of minerals and mineral dissolution.
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Crystallography
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/what-are-minerals/crystallography/Minerals can be identified by the shape of their crystals: called crystallography. External crystallography measures the outside properties of crystals such as length of crystal surfaces and the angles between these surfaces.
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The universe
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/the-universe/The universe can be defined as the whole of existing things from the scale of sub-micron to outer space.
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Lavas
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/lavas/One of the products of volcanic eruptions is lava. Lavas vary widely in composition depending upon their original source magma.
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Plate Tectonics
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/plate-tectonic-processes/Since the 1950s, several discoveries have led to a new understanding of how the Earth works.
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Meteors and Meteorites
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/meteors-and-meteorites/Solid pieces of extraterrestrial debris (meteoroids) can stray from their orbits in outer space and be captured by Earth's gravity.
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Igneous rock types
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/igneous-rock-types/Igneous rocks can be divided up into four groups, based on how they were formed and what they are made of.
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Looking inside the Earth
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/looking-inside-the-earth/The internal structure of the Earth consists of three main parts, the crust, mantle and core. The division between the crust and the mantle is called the Moho.
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