GEO 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nevado Del Ruiz, Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, Landslide
12 Jan 2019
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Hot ash fell onto snow near the summit: of the following, which one would most likely be triggered by an earthquake? rock avalanche, consider a steep highway cut made by removing slightly weathered to fresh, fractured, granite bedrock. A block or blocks of unconsolidated regolith slide downhill along a curved slip surface: ________ denotes the exposed, crescent-shaped rupture surface at the head of a slump. A distinctive sandstone bed underlies the coal bed. Mass wasting does not require a transporting medium: which one of the following materials has the maximum, sustainable, slope angle, as determined by the angle of repose? dry sand, ________ involves movement on a zone of compressed air. A rock avalanche: during wet weather or times when snow is melting, sometimes the downhill toe of a slump. ________. becomes an earthflow: which of the following features characterize wide streams and valleys? natural levees; broad floodplains, the ________ river has the largest discharge of any in the world.
