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Rock Cycle (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's topic entry on the rock cycle, the transitions it describes among igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock, and J. Tuzo Wilson's 1967 work linking the cycle to plate tectonics.

Facts
Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_cycle
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for an uncontested topic definition and its own account of the 1967 Wilson cycle work linking the rock cycle to plate tectonics.
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Rock Cycle (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)

This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
  • Concepts, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.

Well-attested

6

Concepts

Holds

1

Concepts

General References

1

Concepts

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