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It has scientific and economic interests, including resource extraction.
They involve obtaining in situ samples of materials like rocks and minerals.
It provides material from eruptions that can reveal chemical composition.
They deduce internal structure from physical and chemical properties of rocks.
It shows the Earth's magnetic field generated by the fluid outer core.
The seismic method, based on studying earthquake waves.
Primary (P) waves travel through solids and liquids; secondary (S) waves only through solids.
Wave speed changes drastically due to different material compositions.
It separates the Earth's crust from the underlying mantle.
The movement of liquid iron in the outer core creates electric currents.
The gravitational balance between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere.
The processes that lead to the formation of mountain ranges.
Fossil similarities and geological formations across continents.
Where two plates move apart, creating new oceanic crust.
Plates collide, leading to subduction or mountain formation.
They are areas of volcanic activity caused by mantle plumes.
It describes the cyclical opening and closing of ocean basins.
Folds are plastic deformations, while faults are fractures with displacement.
The process of rock transformation due to temperature and pressure changes.
Divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries.
It forms new crust at divergent boundaries and fuels volcanic activity.