What is the ideal setting for detachment folds to form?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Detachment folds form where there is a very weak layer in a contracting rock sequence that can accommodate and localize shear, and a competent layer above that can buckle.
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Which feature on this figure is formed by melting of mantle above the slab?
A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E
Name an example of a place where intraplate earthquakes have occurred.
A. San Andreas fault seismic zone B. Indonesian seismic zone C. Kobe seismic zone D. New Madrid seismic zone
In oceans, net primary productivity is ________
A) where nutrients are greatest B) in the tropics C) in the middle latitudes D) in the polar latitudes E) where nutrients are least