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What two names for the process by which soil and rock are stripped from the Earths surface to expose underlying coal?
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Surface mining and Strip mining :)
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What are two process by which soil and rock are stripped from the earths surface to expose underlying coal?
weathering and erosion
What is the process that breaks up rock on earths surface?
weathering breaks rocks on earths surface
What is the difference between vulcanicity and volcanicity?
Vulcanicity is a process through which gaseous, liquid and solid materials are forced out of the earths crust to the earths surface. Volcanicity is the process where igneous materials reaches the earths surface from the earths crust to the earth surface
What parts of the Rock cycle occur at the Earth's surface?
Mostly the sedimentary part which involves the process of weathering, and diagenesis occurs at the earths surface.
What is the process in which continents move slowly across earths surface?
Continental Drift
What are two process by which soil and rock are stripped from the earths surface to expose underlying coal?
weathering and erosion
What is the process that breaks up rock on earths surface?
weathering breaks rocks on earths surface
What is the difference between vulcanicity and volcanicity?
Vulcanicity is a process through which gaseous, liquid and solid materials are forced out of the earths crust to the earths surface. Volcanicity is the process where igneous materials reaches the earths surface from the earths crust to the earth surface
What is the study of earths surface and process?
Geology and or Geography.
What process moves energy from earths surface to high in the troposphere?
conduction
What process occurs when the sun heats water on the earths surface?
evaporation
What parts of the Rock cycle occur at the Earth's surface?
Mostly the sedimentary part which involves the process of weathering, and diagenesis occurs at the earths surface.
Which natural process is caused by rocks moving under earths surface?
earthquakes
What is a physical process that mainly occurs above the earths surface?
Erosion, weathering
What is the process of breaking down rocks that make the earths surface called?
eroison
What process did James Hutton propose replenishes the rock on Earths surface?
Uplift
Which natural process can change the earths surface though glaciers wind and flooding?
Mudslides
