What Are Placer Deposits

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Short Answer

What are placer deposits?

Grasp the functioning of open market operations and their role in monetary policy.

Distinguish between actual, required, and excess reserves in the banking system.

Recognize the significance and mechanisms of federal funds and their rates.

Understand the historical context and legislative framework surrounding the Federal Reserve System.

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Definitions:

Metamorphic Rocks

Rocks that have been transformed from an original state into a new texture or structure by heat, pressure, and/or fluid activity.

Solidification

The process of a liquid becoming solid, especially upon cooling, as in the formation of igneous rock from cooled magma or lava.

Erosion

The wearing away of soil, sediment, and rock through the removal of material by running water, waves, currents, ice, wind, and gravity.

Weathering

Physical disintegration and chemical decomposition of rocks, sediment, and soil due to exposure to water and other chemical, atmospheric, and biological agents.