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| which seismic wave compress and expand rocks in the direction the wave travel? |
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| what kind of plate boundary occurs where two plates grinds past each other without destroying or producing lithosphere? |
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| why do earthquakes often cause damaging fires? |
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| earthquakes vibration can break gas lines, and electrical lines |
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| tensional stresses commonly cause which of the following |
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| what volcanic features is illustrated at A in figure 10-2? |
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| what type of plate boundary resulted in the volcanic activity illustrated in figure 10-2? |
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| oceanic-continental convergent plate boundary |
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| a fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall is a... |
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| what type of volcano is built almost entirely from ejected lava fragments? |
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