Geology and Geophysics
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Kepler’s second law of planetary motion follows the principle of conservation of
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Which one of the following options shows the internal structural units of the Earth arranged in the CORRECT sequence of increasing volume?
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Which one of the following is NOT an earthquake intensity scale?
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The dimension of transmissivity of an aquifer is
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During ‘K-capture’ nuclear transmutation process
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Which one amongst the following logs has the maximum depth of investigation?
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The scale factor of an aerial photo of a planar ground surface, taken vertically downwards by a camera with a focal length of 300 m, from a flying height of 300 m is ______.
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In a soil sample, specific gravity of soil particles is 2.5 and the void ratio is 0.5. The density of the soil sample when it is fully saturated with water is ______ kg/m³. (Assume density of water = 1000 kg/m³, and no volume change of the soil sample with saturation)
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Nuclide A decays to nuclide B exclusively through α and β decay, such that the mass number is reduced by 32 and the atomic number is reduced by 10. The number of β particles emitted during the decay of nuclide A to nuclide B is ______.
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A cylindrical specimen (diameter = 54.7 mm; length = 110 mm) of basalt shows linear elastic behavior under uniaxial compression. At an axial stress of 100 Mega-Pascal (MPa), the absolute value of the measured axial strain is 0.2%. The Young’s modulus is calculated to be ______ Giga-Pascal (GPa).
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