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Why is this relationship shown as a cycle

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For rock cycle, it’s just part of the system of rocks being created and destroyed in cycles. Since it’s a model that describes formation breakdown and reformation of rocks. And of course the result is either sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous.
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