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This solution discusses the different types of rocks that can be found in Augusta, Georgia.

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Augusta Georgia is referred to as a 'fall line city' because it is near the boundary between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain, two areas of very different geology. Georgia has 4 distinct areas of geology and Augusta is exposed to two of those. The fall line has an abundance of waterfalls and rapids that drop off the hard crystalline rocks from the Piedmont and the more easily erodible sedimentary rocks from the ...

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