A. The present is key to the past. The geological processes ocurring today have always ocurred in the past. So if we want to predict what is going to happen in the future, we need to understand the Earth's past.
B. The tests that are used to determine when continental crust was formed are the relative dating and carbon prototyping
C. Open pit mining, this type of mining is very damaging to the environment because strategic minerals are often only available in small concentrations, which increases the amount of ore needed to be mined.
