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| Designed to encourage mineral exploration and the mining of hardrock minerals | |
| Science devoted to the study of dynamic processes occurring on the earths surface and in its interior | |
| earth's innermost zone | |
| solid rock, but under the asthenosphere its very hot, partly melted rock | |
| outermost and thinnest zone of the earth | |
| geological changes originating in the earth's interior and generally build up the planets surface | |
| move large volumes of rock and heat in loops within the mantle | |
| mantle rock flows slowly upward in a column | |
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| theory explaining the movements of plates and the processes that occur at their boundaries | |
| plates move apart in opposite directions | |
| plates are pushed together by internal forces | |
| plates slide and grind past one another along a fault | |
| process by which material is dissolved, loosened, or worn away from one area and deposited in another | |
| consists of the physical, chemical, and biological break down of rocks rock and minerals into smaller particles | |
| formed when molten rock wells up the the earths mantle and cools and hardens | |
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