Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Answer the following question? 10 points?

The process of isostatic adjustment is most closely associated with which of the following?











a. sea-floor spreading





b. buoyancy





c. volcanic activity





d. lithospheric plate collisions








2.


If you were driving down the highway and saw mountains composed of layered strata, you could be confident that you were looking at











a. batholiths or laccoliths.





b. a shield volcano.





c. extrusive igneous rock.





d. sedimentary rocks.








3.


The Hawaiian Islands were formed as a result of











a. a continental-oceanic plate collision.





b. activity along a mid-ocean ridge.





c. an oceanic-oceanic plate collision.





d. a rising plume of magma from the mantle.|||Buoyancy Sedimentary rock A rising plume of magma

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