GEOL 1001 Chapter : GEOL CH 5 8 QUIZ QUESTIONS
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The youngest volcano of the track occurs at one end of the track. At a rift, continental crust is being stretched apart; as a consequence, the crust becomes thinner. It is too buoyant and cannot be subducted into the asthenosphere. When we say that a material is crystalline we mean that internally . A: atoms are distributed in an orderly atomic arrangement. Graphite and diamond are examples of a polymorph (minerals with the same composition but different structure) true. _____ is a specific, repeating pattern, at the atomic or molecular level, that serves as an orderly framework to accept the atoms, ions, or molecules that make up minerals. Crystal growth can occur by: solidifying out of a melt, precipitation out of a liquid, and diffusion in a solid. Which of the following processes does not lead to the formation of a mineral or minerals: precipitation from an aqueous solution, instantaneous.
