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Science question?

You and a friend are standing at a lookout

overlooking a valley with a mountain in the

middle of it. Your friend says that the mountain

is actually an old volcano that has been eroded.

You disagree and say that you think that the land

around the mountain was formed under the sea

and earth movements pushed the land up to

form the mountain. How could you find out who

was correct?

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  • 2 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    A mountain formed by earth's crust motion would have geological layers showing bending, while a volcano punches through existing layer to deposit its lava on top.

    The type of rocks would therefore be massively different: the former bottom of sea would be sedimentary or metamorphic, the volcano would be igneous.

  • Tom
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    A volcano would have a core -----AND the slopes, would have 30 degree or so angles

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    The Lord Speaks

    Then the Lord spoke out of the storm. He said:

    “Who is this that obscures my plans

    with words without knowledge?

    Brace yourself like a man;

    I will question you,

    and you shall answer me.

    “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?

    Tell me, if you understand.

    Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!

    Who stretched a measuring line across it?

    On what were its footings set,

    or who laid its cornerstone—

    while the morning stars sang together

    and all the angels a shouted for joy?

    “Who shut up the sea behind doors

    when it burst forth from the womb,

    when I made the clouds its garment

    and wrapped it in thick darkness,

    when I fixed limits for it

    and set its doors and bars in place,

    when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;

    here is where your proud waves halt’?

    “Have you ever given orders to the morning,

    or shown the dawn its place,

    that it might take the earth by the edges

    and shake the wicked out of it?

    The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;

    its features stand out like those of a garment.

    The wicked are denied their light,

    and their upraised arm is broken.

    "Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea

    or walked in the recesses of the deep?

    Have the gates of death been shown to you?

    Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

    Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?

    Tell me, if you know all this.

    “What is the way to the abode of light?

    And where does darkness reside?

    Can you take them to their places?

    Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

    Surely you know, for you were already born!

    You have lived so many years!

    “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow

    or seen the storehouses of the hail,

    which I reserve for times of trouble,

    for days of war and battle?

    What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,

    or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

    Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,

    and a path for the thunderstorm,

    to water a land where no one lives,

    an uninhabited desert,

    to satisfy a desolate wasteland

    and make it sprout with grass?

    Does the rain have a father?

    Who fathers the drops of dew?

    From whose womb comes the ice?

    Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

    when the waters become hard as stone,

    when the surface of the deep is frozen?

    “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades?

    Can you loosen Orion’s belt?

    Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons

    or lead out the Bear with its cubs?

    Do you know the laws of the heavens?

    Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?

    “Can you raise your voice to the clouds

    and cover yourself with a flood of water?

    Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?

    Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

    Who gives the ibis wisdom

    or gives the rooster understanding?

    Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?

    Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens

    when the dust becomes hard

    and the clods of earth stick together?

    “Do you hunt the prey for the lioness

    and satisfy the hunger of the lions

    when they crouch in their dens

    or lie in wait in a thicket?

    Who provides food for the raven

    when its young cry out to God

    and wander about for lack of food?

    If you are hungry for more, you may continue your education by going to the book of Job, chapters 39, 40 and 41.

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