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Chemical and biochemical rocks are classified primarily on the basis of ________.

In uniform sediments with a relatively constant and gentle slope at the surface, a ________ drainage network is expected.

The densest layer of Earth is the ________.

Pillow basalts attain their distinctive blob-like shapes because their parent lavas do not travel far prior to solidification. This is because the parent lavas ________.

At a subduction zone, the overriding plate ________.

Scientists believe that the Moon formed due to a large planetesimal colliding with the Earth because it has a composition similar to ________.

The rapid, deep burial of sediments in an accretionary prism leads to the formation of a metamorphic rock termed ________.

When two plates composed of continental lithosphere are pulled together at a convergent boundary, the result is ________.

Which earthquake scale uses the amplitudes of several different waves, the amount of slip, and the dimensions of the slipped area on the fault and is therefore considered the most accurate magnitude scale?

A guyot is ________.