Rocks in example sentence

It wasn't until the turn of the 19th century that our blinders were removed, first, with the publication of James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth," in which he told us that the Earth reveals no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end; and then, with the printing of William Smith's map of Britain, the first country-scale geological map, giving us for the first time predictive insight into where certain types of rocks might occur.

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And then he runs to the nearest tree and starts to break branches and throw rocks and curse like I've never heard.

If we look around us, much of what surrounds us started life as various rocks and sludge buried in the ground in various places in the world.

But, of course, they don't look like rocks and sludge now.

And what starts happening is that, around young suns, young stars, all these elements combine, they swirl around, the energy of the star stirs them around, they form particles, they form snowflakes, they form little dust motes, they form rocks, they form asteroids, and eventually, they form planets and moons.

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