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To answer explanation type questions, think through:Location: between Indian and Eurasian plates Processes: thrust (reverse) faulting, compressive stress , destructive/convergent plate boundary, continent-co...

The Principle of Original Horizontality states that all sedimentary layers are originally deposited horizontally.

The first stage in the formation of a sedimentary rock is the deposition of sediment. The size, shape and type of sediment can tell you lots about the depositional environment. In a high energy environment, ...

As a melt cools in a magma chamber is begins to crystallise and becomes a composite mass of solids, the crystals, and liquid, the residual melt. Bowen's Reaction Series gives the order of which the most comm...

Felsic magmas as they contain more silica molecule (si02) and are therefore more viscous (cannot flow as easily as mafic magmas) meaning more pressure can build up behind the magma before an eruption happens...