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What term describes the zone of contact metamorphism surrounding an intrusive magma body?

Match the description with the appropriate volcanic structures.

The chemical sedimentary rock, conglomerate, is composed of gravel-size, rounded, calcite oolites.

Most basaltic magmas are believed to form by partial melting of granite in the lower crust and upper mantle.

What is thought to be the material state (liquid, solid, gas) and elemental composition of Earth’s outer core?

Concentrated movements of water that flow opposite the direction of breaking waves are called ________.

During metamorphism, what is the major effect of chemically active fluids?

Assume that the central slip face of a barchan dune slopes downhill toward the east. What is the direction of the prevailing wind?

At what depth of water would waves “feel bottom” if their wavelength is 10 feet?

Yardangs are formed ________.