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The ocean floor around the mid ocean ridges would be: |
young crust |
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Y/N: do the appalachian mountains continue beneath the atlantic ocean to europe? |
No, geologist thought that might be the case one time but when these maps came out. So basically, you cannot follow the ocean floor |
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Y/N: Did the glaciers that once covered the Seherra desert in India? |
Yes it did |
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What are the 3 features you find near a convergent plate boundary? |
Magmatic arc, Fore Arc basin, Accretionary wedge |
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volanoes of the cascade are active, why? what's forming the cascades? |
convergent boundaries ocean-to-continent convergence |
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what kind of plate boundary formed the hawaiian islands? |
there's no plate boundaries, hawaii is a hot spot |
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how did the rocks of the sierra nevada originate? or what did they originate as? |
magmatic arc |
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coast ranges originated as what? |
accretionary wedge |
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how many plate boundaries does california have right now? |
all 3 |
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T/F: continents are usually subducted and melted at melted at convergent boundaries |
false |
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T/F: A rift is a place where the crust is forced back into the mantle |
false |
