ESC 1000 Final: GLY1010 Review Exam 2
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Submarine fan, located at the rise found at the base of the slope. Deep-sea fan at the base of the slope. Newer lithosphere is less dense because is hotter. 13. 6 four layers of the ocean: sediment, 2. Forms from particles of other rocks or the remains of plants and animals pressed and cemented together. Glass-encrusted basalt blobs that form when magma enters sea and cools very quickly. Molten basaltic magma rose through and cut across existing layers of basalt. A rock: igneous, high in dark silicates, and with coarse-grained texture. 14. 4 zone that forms when two continents collide? plate. West coast had no continent-to-continent accretion between the east and west coasts of collision like the east coast that produced the. Line of volcanoes caused by the partial melting of an ongoing subducting plate. Nature of slope materials, presence of water, slope angle, removal of anchoring vegetation. 15. 9 underwater landslides that occur on the flanks of submarine volcanoes.
