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1. Convergent - Where two plates collide together, and the crust is destroyed.2) Divergent - Where two plates move away from each other, and new crust is formed.3) Transform - Where the two plates slid...

To answer explanation type questions, think through:Location: between Indian and Eurasian plates Processes: thrust (reverse) faulting, compressive stress , destructive/convergent plate bo...

The Principle of Original Horizontality states that all sedimentary layers are originally deposited horizontally.

The first stage in the formation of a sedimentary rock is the deposition of sediment. The size, shape and type of sediment can tell you lots about the depositional environment. In a high energy environmen...

As a melt cools in a magma chamber is begins to crystallise and becomes a composite mass of solids, the crystals, and liquid, the residual melt. Bowen's Reaction Series gives the order of which the most c...