While on a geologic expedition, you unearth a large, dark stone with an excellent print of a fossil embedded within the rock. Because of the dark color, your friend automatically assumes that it is an igneous rock. Explain why it is uncommon to find fossils in igneous rock. In what kind of rock are most fossils found?

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A: The land covered with grasses rather than usual herbs, shrubs, and trees is known as grassland, and ...

Q: Sketch a map of an idealized tectonic plate and evaluate the volcanic hazards along each type of pla...

A: In the figure above, A represents the oceanic plate, B represents the mid-ocean ridge, and C represe...

Q: This is technically more oceanography, but I thought I'd give it a chance. Out of these words - whic...

A: Beach is a land form seems like  narrow portion of land lies side by side with ocean, lake, river. B...

Q: A dry fluffy snow will most likely have:  (Choose the BEST answer) 5 units of snow to 1 unit of w...

A: The percentage of water to snow is called as  snow ratio.

Q: Sketch and label areas of erosion and deposition resulting from the groin (top), jetty (middle), and...

A:   Jetties are rock walls made to protect the entrance of a harbor from sediment deposition and storm...

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A: Apparent magnitude gives us an idea about the brightness of an object appearing from the earth. It d...

Q: Is the killing power of tsunami due mostly to the wave heights or to the long wavelengths that allow...

A: Tsunami is a series of water waves highly disastrous to the coastal community. It is caused by the d...

Q: 5. Which type of beach litter is biodegradable? 1) soda cans 2) plastic bottles 3) nylon fishing lin...

A:   5. Which type of beach litter is biodegradable? 4) driftwood   6. Which factor is a major or signi...

Q: Based on what you learned about Venus, select all of the correct statements from the following list....

A: True. Venus's atmosphere very hot and is about 100 times thicker compared to Earth's. It is composed...

Q: What are bold actions in rogue wave?

A: Rouge waves are created in the area where the action of the wind is very strong. These form against ...

Q: What common elements combine to form most igneous rocks?

A: Igneous rocks are formed from by the cooling of lava or magma that are coming from the eruption of v...

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A: Air gets cooler with altitude i.e., temperature varies inversely with elevation. In some cases, howe...

Q: 2. Rising seas inundate land, compounding coastal erosion problems outlined above. Calculate how muc...

A: The level of inundation due to a rising  sea-level can be calculated as: Change in Horizontal Distan...

Q: What average speed, in centimeters/year has the Pacific plate been moving for the past 5 million yea...

A:   As location of hotspot remains fixed relative to plate motion and also Hawaiian big island is loca...

Q: Identify and describe 3 different types of shorelines within the Chesapeake Bay

A: The Chesapeake Bay in the mid-Atlantic Ocean region is the largest estuary present in the United Sta...

Q: Define extinction event and state how many have occurred thus far.

A: The extinction event is defined as the sudden demise of the species due to some catastrophic event o...

Q: Calculate the percent change when a population of 350 birds increases to a population of 500 birds. ...

A: Percent Change= New Population - Old PopulationOld Population × 100Percent Change= 500 - 350350 × 10...

Q: Draw a cross-section and explain why an ocean wave breaks as it nears the shoreline.

A:   As the waves reaches shallower water, the growth in wave height occurs in a wave shoaling process....