Homework Clinic
Science Clinic => Geography => Topic started by: clmills979 on Feb 28, 2020
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Question 1
Which type of plate margin is characterized by volcanoes that include basalt, andesite, dacite and rhyolite?
◦ hot spots
◦ transform faults
◦ convergent plate margins
◦ spreading ridges
Question 2
Most granitic batholiths are generated ________.
◦ along hot spot chains beneath continents, like a welder cutting through the continent to make a linear belt of intrusive granites
◦ where spreading ridges occur beneath continents
◦ as intrusions beneath composite volcanoes along convergent plate margins
◦ along transform faults, which accounts for their linear geographic distribution
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Answer 1
convergent plate margins
Answer 2
as intrusions beneath composite volcanoes along convergent plate margins
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