🧪 THE ROCK CYCLE: EARTH’S LONGEST JOURNEY UNFOLDING BENEATH YOUR FEET This week, we’re standing on South Georgia, a remote island forged by tectonic forces over hundreds of millions of years. 🌍🔬 Here, the Scotia Plate collided with the South American and Antarctic Plates, uplifting fragments of ancient seabed, compressing sediments, and creating the rugged mountain ranges you now see behind me. 🪨 What you’re witnessing is part of the rock cycle - a continuous process where igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks transform from one form to another under the influence of: 🔁 Heat 🔁 Pressure 🔁 Weathering and Erosion 🔁 Subduction and Uplift Each rock around us tells a story written in minerals, folds, faults, and formations - a record of Earth's dynamic processes dating back hundreds of millions of years. 📖🌋 Understanding this cycle isn't just geology - it's insight into the slow, patient power of natural systems. 💡 Just as rocks are recycled through extreme conditions...