Exam 13: Tectonics and Surface Relief

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Judge the following sentence according to the criteria given below. Mountains continue to rise long after tectonic forces cease to thicken crust and drive uplift along faults because mountains result both from tectonic deformation and isostatic response to erosion.

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Compression causes

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Read carefully through the following sentence, and decide which of the options is correct. Most mountain belts form near convergent plate boundaries where crust thickens by tensional shortening and by intrusion and crystallization of magma.

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An event which may have caused the oceans to become shallower was

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According to Figure 13.29, where did the oldest crust in North America form?

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