________ create(s) an easy route for oil to follow from the rock to a well.

The internal ordering of mineral crystals can be detected using ________.

Most of the ocean floor is made up of ________.

Thermal (contact) metamorphism occurs ________.

Minerals that do not possess cleavage are said to possess ________.

Faults that have moved recently or are likely to move in the future are referred to as ________ faults.

Ore minerals, such as galena and hematite, tend to be different from typical minerals in that they have a ________.

In Bowen’s discontinuous reaction series, the first mineral to crystallize from a mafic melt is ________.

Aside from Earth, the terrestrial planets are ________.

As compared to the asthenosphere, the lithosphere is ________.