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    What Type of Environment Is Typified by Brittle Deformation
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What Type of Environment Is Typified by Brittle Deformation

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Question 3

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What type of environment is typified by brittle deformation?


A) deep burial with great confining pressure
B) intermediate depths with long slow heating and gradual strain rates
C) shallow, low temperature settings with high strain rates
D) shallow very high temperature settings as in contact metamorphism

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