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mspears3

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List and describe the three common processes that cause rocks to experience increasing temperature after they form.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Which of the following would cause a rising water table?
 
  A) Increased precipitation
  B) Increased runoff
  C) Decreasing infiltration
  D) Groundwater depletion exceeding the recharge rate


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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Rock or sediments must achieve a depth sufficient to be impacted by the geothermal gradient by 1) sediment burial in a subsiding basin; 2) faulting of one block of crust over another, (3) magma intrusion which transfers heat to the rock also increases temperature.

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