1- Lithified clasts (breakdown products of preexisting rocks) form which kind of

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1- Lithified clasts (breakdown products of preexisting rocks) form which kind of sedimentary rock?

2- Which of the following is classified as a continental depositional environment?

3- What factors influence the rate of rock weathering?

4- The preexisting rock that is subsequently altered form a metamorphic rock is termed a _______.

5- Which of the following techniques do you think scientists can use to gather evidence about whether the very center of the Earth is mostly a solid, liquid, or gas?

6- The concept that rocks of the crust and upper mantle are floating in the gravitational balance is known as _________.

7- Mountains formed by subduction of an oceanic plate beneath a continental plate are called ______.

8- The term for the processes collectively producing a mountain belt is _________.

9- In addition to earthquake destruction from ground shaking, earthquakes may also trigger ________.

10- A hot body of rock is more likely to exhibit _________ than is a cold body of rock

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1) Lithified clasts form clastic or detrital sedimentary rocks. By the break down of pre existing rocks, the clasts are formed. Later by the diagenetic processes, the lithic clasts are compacted together to form detrital (clastic) sedimentary rocks. The rocks that come under this category are

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