Use the diagram below to answer the questions that follow. 1. Identify the three plates in the diagram and name the materials that make up each plate. 2. Which type of plate boundary occurs at Y?  3. What feature occurs at X and how does it form?

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A: Pseudomorphism is the assumption by a mineral of a form belonging to another mineral by incrustation...

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A: Oceanic crust provides details about the age of rocks, recycling of basaltic rocks, reversal to eart...

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A: Given,  slope= 13°depth of weakest plane below surface=h= 7 ftslope distance= d=hsin 13°⇒d=7sin 13°=...

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A: Minerals are substances that occur naturally, contain specific chemical composition and a well-defin...

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A: Sea level is average level of surface of one or more water bodies of seas or ocean, from this level ...

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A: The foraminifera diversified in Silurian developing calcareous shells such as the order fusulinida.

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A: Specific humidity is defined as the amount of water vapor per unit weight of air.  It is a measure o...

Q: 57..Though most gastropods are grazing forms , some are Sessile benthos T F

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Q: 59.The interior space of a brachiopod is divided up into mantle cavity and coelom . T F

A: The brachiopods are one of the most important groups of invertebrates. The interior space of a brach...

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A: Igneous rocks are rocks that are formed as magma cools, crystallizes, and solidifies. They are class...

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A: Salinity is defined as the total concentration of solid-state material that dissolved in the water. ...