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Rocks from Salish Sea beaches are various. These are from igneous and sedimentary sources, but often metamorphosed to some degree by tectonic forces here where the North American and the Juan de Fuca plates collide.
Those with lines/cracks were fractured and filled with hardened mineral solutions after the rock was formed.
Long before that, before the rock was pushed underground by tectonic forces, the rock itself formed. Some are sedimentary, composed of a mix of sediment particles. A confused unorganized mix like this might have come from an avalanche into the ocean nearby. Turbidites are formed this way.
This fractured rock looks more metamorphized, held deep underground where the planet’s heat partially melted it.
Many of the rocks on this particular beach are green.
[From Rochester and Lake O area and possibly NY in general ]:
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