What makes mullions and buckle folds similar?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: They both form in or along a competent layer embedded in a less viscous matrix, they form by layer-parallel shortening and both develop a characteristic wavelength that is related to the viscosity contrast
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What will be an ideal response?
Western economies rely on which of the following?
A. natural gas B. petroleum C. coal D. uranium E. metals F. All of these choices are correct.
Alternating lines of blue and red on a surface weather chart indicate a(n)
a. cold front. b. warm front. c. stationary front. d. occluded front. e. dryline.
Species richness is affected by many variables. As one travels to higher latitudes, one would expect ________
A) the number of species to increase B) population viability to increase C) the number of species to be maintained D) other factors to be more important than latitude E) the number of species to decrease