The principle that can be used to determine the relative age of an igneous intrusion called a dike is the principle of
A) crosscutting relations.
B) superposition.
C) original horizontality.
D) unconformities.
A) crosscutting relations.
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How did the underlying geology contribute to the Gros Ventre Landslide of 1925?
A) Rains saturated the sandstone and clay that make up the slope. B) Creep weakened the sandstone making up the slope. C) Vegetation was removed from the slope. D) The river that flowed through the valley dissolved the limestone.
The text cites the case of the explosion of the AZF fertilizer factory in Toulouse, France which damaged 27,000 homes to make which theoretical point?
a) In the words of environmental sociologist David Pellow, that environmental inequality is a “sociohistorical process” rather than simply a “discrete event.” b) To raise the frequently posed question: did the plant target the area where the disadvantaged live, or did the disadvantaged move in after it was built? c) That corporate culpability is hard to trace. d) All of the above.
________ is (are) associated with permafrost.
A. Avalanches B. Solifluction C. Thixotropy D. Quicksands E. Expansive clays
According to Newton's Law of Inertia, the result of walking around much of the day is similar to tightening the head of a hammer when its handle hits a solid surface so that we are actually a little bit shorter in the
A) morning. B) evening. C) no difference, really