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Rock Hill:
ROCK HILL, city, South Carolina, in York County, 25 miles southwest of Charlotte, X.C., at an altitude of 690 feet. While the Textile industry is the main reason for the city's importance today. the selection of Rock Hill as the location of Win-throp College (the state college for women), and the agricultural interests of York County have been important factors in its growth. The chief industrial products are cotton textiles, rayon yam, wood pulp, panel board, truck bodies, and nylon hosiery.Winthrop College, founded in Columbia ::. 1886, was moved to Rock Hill in 1895. It has one of the best auditoriums in the South. The city supports a full-time recreation department which includes parks, swimming pools, and a stadium seating 5,000. First settled as a village in 1852, Rock Hill was incorporated in 1870. Pop. (1960) 29,404. ROCK HOPPER PENGUIN, a penguin (Eudyptes crestatus) of the temperate ami sub-antarctic region. The range is circumpolar; this penguin breeds north to Tierra del Fuego; the Falkland Islands, where it is especially alui'"1-""-Gough and Tristan da Cunha islands; Ker. and the islands south of New Zealand. ., . about 23 inches in size and differs from all other penguins in having a crest of glossy black i on the back of the head, and in being with long yellow feathers which spring fi region in front of the eye and extend and outward. Its name comes from its gait as it proceeds on land with a series and clumsy jumps, very much like a man ;:. sack race.
The movement of the earth's crust may carry the rock as much as 700km (454 miles) below the surface. Here the temperature and pressure will be even higher and the rock will begin to melt. Molten rock is lighter than solid rock and it will begin to rise up through the overlying rock towards the surface. If it reaches the surface as a lava flow it will immediately be ready for weathering and erosion and the start of a new cycle. More often the molten rock solidifies underground and then all the rock above it must be eroded away before it can begin the cycle again.
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