What is the difference between rheology and rock mechanics?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Rheology has more to do with how rocks flow over geologic time as a continuum, while rock mechanics also deals with how rocks fracture along sharp discontinuities.
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Salinization is likely to occur
A) in areas characterized by coniferous forests. B) in the tropics. C) in areas of high potential evapotranspiration. D) in humid climate regions.
Global warming is not uniform throughout the earth as some places it is more severe than others.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
List four effects of Ice Age glaciers aside from the formation of major erosional and depositional features
What will be an ideal response?
Compared to the mass of an apple on the Earth's surface, on the Moon's surface
A. it is less. B. it is more. C. it is the same. D. a mystery.