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How is identifying rocks different from identifying the minerals that compose the rocks?
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How is identifying rocks different from identifying the minerals that compose the rocks?

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Identifying the minerals that compose the rocks is concerned with the chemical compounds within the rocks, while the identification of the rocks is based on the processes that produced the rocks.
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