How could you use seismic-wave travel velocities to determine if magma is present below a restless volcano?

What will be an ideal response?


Liquids should have slower seismic velocities than solid rock; S waves do not pass through magma.

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Which of the following is carried by tRNAfMet during the formation of the pre-initiation complex?

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