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A: SAN ANDREAS FAULT LINE: The transform boundaries or shear plate margins are such margin comes into b...

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A: The mantel plume is a mechanism of convection where the hard molten rocks within the earth's mantel....

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A: The Chesapeake Bay is United State's largest estuary, found in the mid-Atlantic region.

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A: In the solution they given the rate of displacement of San Andreas Fault are 3.5 centimeters per yea...

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A: Introduction OPEC OPEC or Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is a permanent, intergov...

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A: Soil is an abiotic component of the environment, it consists of a mixture of inorganic and organic c...

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A: PLEISTOCENE EPOCH: Pleistocene Epoch was earlier and major of the two epochs that constitute the Qua...

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A: Two high tides, as well as two low tides every day, are observed in most areas, but not in everyplac...

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A: A multinational state is a sovereign state made up of two or more nations or states. This compares w...

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A: Subduction is the process of a collision between the two tectonic plates which are of the heavier an...

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