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What is the Ring of Fire

The Ring of Fire (Pacific Ring of Fire) is an area of Pacific Plate subduction, rimming (of course) the Pacific Ocean. The plate subduction creates a line of volcanism geographically around its perimeter that appears to form a circle or ring.

The Ring of Fire is the subducting plate boundary of the shrinking Pacific Ocean. The subducting oceanic crust is being drawn under less dense oceanic and continental crust and is melting into the upper mantle which can lead to volcanism and earthquakes.

The youngest rocks are found near the center of

a downwarping known as a basin

Which type of landform develops at plate boundaries where one oceanic plate descends beneath another

A volcanic island arc

As erosion removes the tops of mountains the crust will rise upwards This is an example of what

Isostasy

What is the result of cooling and hardening of magma deep underground

Intrusive igneous rock.

How are shale and sandstone formed at the grand canyon

they give birth

A worm would stand a poor chance of being fossilized because

Worms have no hard parts

The collision and joining of crustal fragments to a continent

mamga <-Lies get out.

Accretion is the correct awnser.

What is larger sill dike laccolith or batholith

The Batholith would be the larger feature.

A lava flow with a surface of rough jagged blocks and sharp angular projections is called

aa (pronounced ah-ah)

Geologists have divided earths history in the manaeable units that are represented by the

Geologic time scale

What is a lens-shaped intrusive igneous mass that forms close to Earth's surface

I believe it's laccolith - NovaNet

What is an igneous intrusive feature that forms from a lens shaped mass of magma that arches over the overlying strata upwards

Laccolith

How do you uplift and erosion help to form batholith

by exposing a large body of igneous rock to the surface

What scientists is credited with proposing the principle of uniformitarianism

James Hutton

Which describes the correct order of the geologic time scale from oldest to most recent

A.

Precambrian Time - Paleozoic Era - Mesozoic Era - Cenozoic Era

B.

Cenozoic Era - Paleozoic Era - Mesozoic Era - Precambrian Time

C.

Mesozoic Era - Paleozoic Era - Precambrian Time - Cenozoic Era

D.

Paleozoic Era - Precambrian Time - Mesozoic Era - Cenozoic Era

What is a sheet like body that cuts across rock layers and is produced when magma is injected into a fraction is called

A dike I got it right on a test

Oceanic-continental convergent plate boundary.

oceanic-continental convergent plate boundary has what kind of crustal rocks

Is not a major component of magma A. partially melted mineral crystals B. water C. dissolved gases D. lava

Water is not a major component of melted rock. The heat has turned any water into steam.

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