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Besides the contribution from the radionuclides from the Uranium and Thorium series, rocks containing can

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Which tabular, discordant igneous rock body intrudes along a crack or fissure?

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Small amounts of water can lower partial melting temperatures in silicate rocks.

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Magma generation at depth almost always involves partial melting, not complete melting of the source rock.

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Xenoliths are associated most closely with which magmatic process and igneous rockbody?

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Which one of the following statements is not true?

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A small, igneous rock body emplaced at shallow depths by uplift and arching of the overlying, older strata is a ________

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Pockets of magmas can be formed by the melting of deep continental crust heated by the intrusion of other magmas.

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Volcanic bombs originate ________.

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