Time Scales and Intervals of Importance to Geologic Processes__________

question 102

Multiple Choice

Time scales and intervals of importance to geologic processes__________ .

• A) range only from days to millions of years
• B) range from less than a millisecond to billions of years
• C) must be shorter than seismic wave vibrations or longer than mantle convection cycles but nothing in between
• D) must be at least as long as the epochs in the geologic time scale

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