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What is Desalinization and what are its pros and cons?


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Magmatism

Geological processes related to the formation, movement, and solidification of magma or molten rock beneath or at the Earth's surface.

East Pacific Rise

A Mid-Oceanic Ridge in the eastern Pacific Ocean associated with a divergent tectonic plate boundary where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity.

Accretionary Prism

A prism-shaped pile of rock and sediment detached from the upper part of a descending tectonic plate and adhered to the plate above it at a collision zone between tectonic plates.

Subduction Zone

The region where one tectonic plate moves under another, leading to volcanic activity and earthquakes.

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