Imagine you are a sentient (self-aware) crystal of quartz that takes a typical path from mountain top to deep sea floor. Write a brief free-form poem (i. e., it does not have to rhyme) that describes details of each step of your journey beginning with being embedded in a granite that just got exposed high in the San Gabriel Mountains and ending with you as an isolated, very tiny, and more rounded remnant of your former self on the deep-sea floor between Newport beach and the Channel Islands. Need to do rn

Mantle convection is the process that drives plate tectonics. the theory of plate tectonics states that the crust is divided into plates that float on the semi molten mantle below. the circular motion of the magma as it slowly rises and falls or move though convection cells drags the plates along causing them to move. the heat source in the lamp would represent the earth's core. the core is the source of energy that drives convection in the mantle. the lava represents molten magma under the earth's surface. if the lava lamp had floating pieces they would move as the circular motion of the lava in the lamp as it rises and falls would move them along the surface. these floating pieces would represent pieces of the earth's crust. 

Answer barren with few trees, in the northern hemisphere;