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What is the term for the stable interior area, which is composed of ancient crystalline rock, of a continent?

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Craton

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What are 2 major factors that determine whether a rock will undergo brittle deformation or ductile deformation?

Temperature and shear modulus.

Unome wrote:

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What are 2 major factors that determine whether a rock will undergo brittle deformation or ductile deformation?

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Temperature and shear modulus.

dhdarren wrote:

Unome wrote:

dhdarren wrote:I'll throw in another post...

What are 2 major factors that determine whether a rock will undergo brittle deformation or ductile deformation?

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Temperature and shear modulus.

Correct! Here's a few more answers that might be acceptable, most of them connecting in a way to your answers.

Composition of rock (ex. halite vs granite), pressure, depth, etc.

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freed2003 wrote:What areally the 3 tyes of unconformities in strata composition?

[b]disconformity:[/b] parallel layers of sedimentary rocks followed by erosion then more paralel deposit of sedimentary rocks.
[b]noncomformity:[/b] Metamorphic or igneous rocks deposit erodes at the surface and sedimentary rocks gets deposited. 
[b]Angular comformity: [/b] Sediments are uplifted and tilted then gets eroded then sedimentary are deposited.
[b] paraconformity: [/b] strata is paralel and no apparent erosion

Tailsfan101 wrote:What are the three main kinds of lava?

Basaltic, Rhyolitic, Andesitic