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1 T or F: Richter’s Dream is about earthquakes.
2 T or F: The rock cycle has operated to separate the oceans and the continents.
3 T or F: Igneous rock can be cycled directly back into igneous rock.

Richter’s Dream
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Theory of the
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The rock cycle

 

 


     
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Introduction
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1 T or F: Soil erosion is by denudation and leaching.

Soil
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Denudation
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1 T or F: Compaction can lithify sand to sandstone.
2 T or F: Contact metamorphism caused by a change of temperature.
3 T or F: Dynamic metamorphism results in a non-foliated texture.
4 T or F: Rock crushed to mylonite is an example of regional metamorphism.
5 T or F: Decrease of pressure can cause granitic magma to solidify and cause peridotite to partly melt.
  
Lithification
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Diagenesis
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Types of
metamorphism
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