What is the difference between a salt sheet and a salt canopy?

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Answer: A salt sheet is a single salt structure that has flowed laterally to obtain a width ?5 times the thickness of the original diapir or its underlying stem. A canopy forms when several (three or more) such sheets grow into a connected sheet-like structure.

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During baroclinic instability, the strong wind speed shear that exists from the surface up to a level of approximately 500 mb is disturbed by a shortwave

a. True b. False

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Sketch the wind flow patterns around surface high- and low-pressure centres in the northern and southern hemispheres.

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Coal forms

A. through hydrothermal processes B. by crystal settling C. on the ocean floor D. by compaction of plant material

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