movement of sections of Earth's crust; movement may be horizontal or vertical
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the part of the Earth's hydrosphere that is made of frozen water.
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the ordered three-dimensional arrangement of the particles of a crystal in an ionic bond or...
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polymers are only able to form areas of crystallinity or crystalline domains, and are not...