I, Rock A Geology Tale

Okay, our friends, so I have heard some of you say things like we really like Minecraft

because we get to dig things up and I've heard other of you say oh we really like jewels

and stories about beautiful things and I've heard some of you say things like we like to go

for nature walks and we like to go outside and I like all of those things wouldn't it be great

if there were a story about digging things up and being outside and jewels or shiny things all

at once oh my friends let me tell you about a very special thing called geology and because today

we're gonna wrap it all up in one nice little package and we're gonna read you this story

so hold on tight because you're gonna love today's story it's full of cool stuff it's called

I Rock it's a geology tale and the words are by Katie Slavinski and the pictures are by

Steph still well and guys if you don't have this book run out and grab a copy of it I'll put a

link for it on my amazon affiliates page which if you didn't know I do have every story that I've

ever done kept in whatever month I've done it in for whatever year I have done it in

in my amazon affiliates page so if you ever hear a story and you guys love it you can you don't have

to dig for you can find it right there I've kept them off for you because I like you so for you kids

who truly rock let's do this story it's read by mommy and the guy who was so frustrated right now

the guy who was so what what you're frustrated right now why are you frustrated tell me

you know how you know how you just said that this is where kids are like that yeah yeah I just want

the nether and when I'm trying to use my hopper to get everything from a paper and some

chest without opening it so that they don't kill me oh okay my hopper didn't work oh

dirt dirt yeah you know what when you're when your video game malfunctions that can be pretty

frustrating yeah well I can see why you would be frustrated then I'm so sorry about that

do you think you could transfer your frustration into listening to a story about something fun

yeah nice let's do this you ready here we go so when we open the book they're very first thing

that we see is it looks like maybe a school room and there's some kids sitting around and there's

a black board and it says senior citizen interviews presentation today and there's a boy but there's

something if you look closely there's something under his shoe and the boy looks down what and it says

hello excuse me down here stuck under Louis's shoe and when we can zoom in close we see it's a

rock and the rock says there we go I couldn't help but hear your class sharing stories about the

oldest people you know that rocks I noticed that none of those stories are from folks who have

been around quite as long as me though would anyone like to hear a four billion year old story

yeah it might not look much but and of course at that all the kids raise their hands yeah oh you

would really wow you all rock I started out in the deep dark underground till not quite liquid

not quite solid not quite me and that's where I got to know my minerals and now we're going to

hear about some minerals there's zircon and quartz and felt spar and biotite and horn blend

and the rock says 4.3 billion years ago things are super moody this far back just like you can't

remember the first days after you were born I have trouble remembering my first 300 million years

I don't doubt that well moving on what are minerals they are ingredients that make rocks they

can make us super strong some sharp and sparkly and my personal favorite able to withstand burning

acid for a billion years ago introducing my minerals they really get me I guess because they are me

I moved around inside a layer of the earth called the mantle for a really really long time

now inside the earth we can see this is all of course what scientists have discovered because

we don't we're not able to go into the earth's core are we yeah

crust the solid part of your planet you spindle your timeline it's super thin compared to the rest

of the earth's layers but as far as your daily lives go the crust is your whole world then comes the

mantle this layer makes up most of the planet it's immense and even though the mantle seems solid

to you humans it does flow around if you watch it long enough like I have then comes the outer

core liquid gooey and hot hot hot hot the outer core gets to be around 9000 degrees Fahrenheit

bust but not least the inner core is the deepest layer temperatures here are even hotter than

the outer core maybe hotter than the surface of the sun holy gee moly you'd think it would be warm

enough for everything to be melty but the pressure of the planet pressing in on the inner core

keeps it totally solid until I got blasted up through the earth's crust and in the picture we

can see what happened it was a volcano wasn't it come plow no not like pizza crust or sandwich

crust you probably know the earth's crust better as the land and the ocean floor I got to know the

ocean floor super well because the lava I was in cool and became part of it and that was 1.9

billion years ago and under water volcano my big debut at first I thought I'd sit in one spot

forever but the ocean floor moves and so does the land turns out earth's crust is made of separate

pieces called plates no not dinner plates tectonic plates that sit on top of the mantle and this

is what the plates look like today in the picture we can see them and friends friends friends what

strange things they are our rock says 1.8 billion years ago hanging out in the earth's crust

specifically the oceanic crust still in earth's crust yep at least I'm out of the mantle

and we can see there is the Pacific plate and then Naz Cub plate and the South American plate

and the Scorsia plate and the Goku's plate and the Caribbean plate and the North American plate

and African plate and the Eurasian plate and the Arabian plate and the Somali plate and the

Andean plate and the Australian plate and the Philippine plate and the the Arctic plate

don't forget about the Juan de Fuca plate oh my goodness so many different plates

we didn't move fast only about half an inch a year says the rock until

boom shake and boom our ocean plate sank under a land plate I didn't know they could do that

we caused so many volcanoes and earthquakes on our way down whoops and then our little rock says

1.1 billion years ago this process was called subduction that's a fun word to say it's also a pretty

fun thing to experience though it did slide me back into the mantle and we can see how the

the plate of the ocean is tucking under the plate of the land anyway I ended up in the mantle

again until guess what friends another volcano couple and this was 870 million years ago for

this rock the day I flew well kind of I was in the air for a little bit when the volcano erupted

does that count I got blasted back out and this time into the sky I cooled and landed atop

the actual land wow what a ride he says for the first time I was me just me and that was 870

million years ago me myself and I for igneus he says an igneus rock taking on the world until

now here's a fun fact friends igneus is a rock that is made from liquid rock cooling into solid

rock you want to become a solid rock and your melty liquid rock like you got to become an

igneus then a huge storm washed me into a river it was a wild rapids ride pieces of me got knocked

off as I rushed and gushed about and now we see 450 million years ago he goes on this river right

I'll never forget then 445 million years ago he says friends that became family our rock was called

conglomerate and it was just the best good times when the water settled all that was left of me

was piled with other rocks and over time winded up cemented together and became something new

something sedimentary now fun fact sedimentary is a rock that is made up of pieces of rocks and minerals

and sometimes even parts of animals or plants I'll stuck together and then he says to his friends

because a massive earthquake I broke apart from the others and fell off a cliff into the ocean oh my

that was 331 million years ago I'll never forget the day our penglomerate fell apart

alas tight groups crumble all the time right that's just how things go and it's okay it's cool I'm fine

I'm fine I wonder what those rocks are up to these days and then guess what happens to him next

friends surfs up it was a tsunami do you know what a tsunami is hmm did you know the earthquakes

can set off other natural disasters hmm I barely even had time to think because I ended up

getting thrown back onto land by a huge wave and that's what that tsunami is that's a big wave

325 million years ago the famous supercontinent pengea formed and with me on it and I was there

that's right the continent of pengea that's where all the continents were all one big super

continent few he says the continent I landed on squished into another and formed a supercontinent

in all lands and the world was connected then you can imagine the kind of adventures like I didn't

too I got was kicked by dinosaurs 190 year million years ago watch out for those

thorough pods their feeder no joke now a supercontinent is a huge continent that other continents

eventually break off from and a new supercontinent forms about once every half a billion years

from smaller continents merging back together 159 million years ago I watched baby

dinosaurs hatch and they were so adorable and I got lodged into a dinosaur nest

and then 99 million years ago there were some curious creatures back then that kind of looked like

you all I was sniffed by baby mammals that's right we're mammals and then buried in an avalanche

oh no that's when the snow piles up on you and then stuck back in the ground

and as things piled up up up up I got pushed down down down 95 million years ago I was buried

again won't pop but the weight of it all pushed on me so much I changed I became better more thick

I still had all my minerals but they were arranged in new ways shinier sparklier I even had

some pretty snazzy stripes in there for a while but then I sank too far down it ended up getting

back into the magma 84 million years ago my metamorphosis was complete now here's a fun fact

metamorphic rocks are rocks that get their minerals rearranged or even get entirely new ones

from increased heat pressure or other types of chemical change there can be lots of different things

that affect a rock to turn it into a metamorphic rock this time I didn't shoot out of a volcano

no deep underground there was no way of getting out slowly in that cold and dark I hardened into

a solid rock again it seemed my adventures were over I was trapped at least that's what I thought

what I didn't realize was the plate I was in pushed against another and together they

bunched up to make a giant mountain but I was inside and I had no way to know hello it's me

I'm in here and that was 70 million years ago raising up even though I didn't know it

55 million years ago by this point I was one of the highest things in the world I wish I could have

told myself that back then I would never have believed it and we can see where rock is inside the

mountain peace by peace the rock around me crumbled away and then one amazing day whoa he was on

the edge of the mountain and rolled down out out oh my oh oh day light I eroded off the

side of the mountain and free again I tumbled down the trees back on land once more 3.3 million

years ago whoa freedom now erosion that's a big word that is when rock or soil or dirt crumbles away

over time because either wind or water or some other natural forces wear it down and that's

why I've been for the past few million years well until we stepped on me on the forest trail

and that was one day ago I met less or at least I met his show and today I got to meet all of you

so there you have it I might not look like much to all of you but after four billion years I'm

proud to say that I'm here I'm me and I'm rock and all the kids say you do rock rock on

and that is some beautiful interesting things about geology right is that you've got these

tectonic plates moving in the earth's crust you've got magma deep inside of our planet and then

you have these different kinds of rock that come out the igneas the sedimentary the metamorphic rock

right and it's kind of a rock cycle right when the rock changes types it's like the water cycle

but the rock cycle right and you have all these minerals that go into them it's fascinating stuff

isn't it I'm going to say it I think geology rocks

me too and that is yeah be it

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