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What causes rocks to be heated?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

The core of the Earth is as hot as the surface of the Sun. Thus as you move down in the Earth it gets hot. When geological processes (the rock cycle) caries rocks to depth, they heat up.

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