Stability prevails when the environmental lapse rate is

What will be an ideal response?


less than the wet adiabatic rate

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What will be an ideal response?

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Explain how physical geography plays an important role in the distribution of Australia's population

What will be an ideal response?

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Transform faults have mostly vertical displacement rather than horizontal displacement.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Which change does NOT tend to increase the driving forces affecting slope stability?

a. removal of lateral support b. construction of a landfill near the top of the slope c. ground shaking caused by an earthquake d. placement of rock fill at the base of the slope

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