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A student places an open hardcover book face down on a table. Slowly, he pushes the two halves of the book toward each other. Which geologic process is he trying to model?
Responses
A mountain buildingmountain building
B Sediment depositionSediment deposition
C sea floor spreadingsea floor spreading
D divergent plate boundaries
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A — mountain building.
Pushing the two halves together compresses and crumples the pages, simulating crustal shortening and uplift that occurs at convergent plate collisions (mountain building). Sea-floor spreading and divergent boundaries are modeled by pulling apart, not pushing together.
Pushing the two halves together compresses and crumples the pages, simulating crustal shortening and uplift that occurs at convergent plate collisions (mountain building). Sea-floor spreading and divergent boundaries are modeled by pulling apart, not pushing together.
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