Learning the Rock Cycle: Acadia National Park
Learn how the rock cycle creates and transforms igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks while exploring Acadia National Park. Created and Hosted by Chris Anderson. Produced by Chris Anderson, Mary Ellen Finnegan, and Paul Smith. Edited by John Gibson and Zoey Desmond. Animations by Arianna Manners. Directed and filmed by Mary Ellen Finnegan. Original music by Blake Sutton. A special thanks to: -Acadia National Park -National Geographic Society -Hamilton County ESC -Kathie Petrie -Duane Braun -Folarin Kolawole -Rockleigh Woods Sanctuary -The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
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Topics
- middle school
- Acadia National Park
- geology
- granite
- caldera
- plate tectonics
- rock cycle
- igneous rock
- sedimentary rock
- metamorphic rock
- schist
- mudstone
- structural geology
- weathering
- erosion
- tectonic collision
- geologic history
- national parks education
- magma chamber
- tectonic plate collision
- deposition
- crystallization
- mountain building
- geologic time
- Earth systems
- rock cycle explanation