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The Earth itself is not a proactive agent, it is Earth processes that cause change. These Earth processes are driven by the heat in Earth's core and incident Solar radiation.

Processes at Earth's surface cause the weathering and breakdown of exposed rocks and the sediments which result from this get transported and deposited to form new Sedimentary rocks.

Movements of the continental plates causes rocks comprising the crust to be buried deeper, squashed and heated (sometimes to the point of melting - making new Igneous rocks) and in this new environment new minerals and fabrics form in the rocks which are now called Metamorphic rocks.

Over geologic time these processes repeat in what is called the "Rock Cycle".

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