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Describe three styles of tectonic plate movement at plate boundaries.

The three styles of tectonic plate movement are convergent (when plates move towards each other), divergent (when plates move apart), and transform (when plates slide past each other).At convergent plate ...

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Describe and explain the nature of Igneous body A and explain the distribution of olivine and its significance?

Igneous body A intrudes concordantly into the country rock and has baked and chilled margins on both sides of the igneous contact. This show's that is a structure known as a sill.The Olivine forms a band ...

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Explain the evidence for seafloor spreading?

One piece of evidence for seafloor spreading is that with increased distance from the Mid Ocean Ridge (MOR), the age of rocks on the seafloor increases. This supports the concept that molten rock is eject...

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What could be interpret about the formation of a sedimentary rock from the information that its grains are, in the majority, fine and well rounded?

The fact that the grains are well rounded suggests that they have been subjected to a relatively high level of erosion (due to the smoothing of sharp edges). From this, we could interpret that the sedimen...

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Give two factors which aid the fossilization process, explaining how each increases preservation potential.

Rapid burial of the organic material will prevent any erosion or scavenging occurring, allowing the organic material to become encased in rock and become more likely too be preserved.Becoming buried in fi...

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