APPLICATIONS+INVESTIGATIONS IN EARTH
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Author: Tarbuck
Publisher: Hayden-McNeil Publishing
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Chapter 7.2, Problem 1A
Summary Introduction
The outermost extent of the impact craters.
Introduction:
Volcanoes are also known as cinder cones and are formed from a large number of particles and blobs of the molten lava that has ejected from single eruption event. When the volcano collapses or the area is hit by an asteroid or a meteorite, a depression known as a crater is developed.
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