I think the answer would be C) a place where water heated by magma rises from the ocean floor because it is an opening on the Ocean floor that releases heated mineral - rich water.
Well first off the founders, any amending documentation, and input by the civilian population. From there they can grow, fall, adapt, or die. In seemingly infinite ways the gov. or population can be changed.
Ultramafic,as components of mafic rocks like olivine and pyroxene solidified at very high temperatures, so mafic minerals will decompose as the result of chemical weathering more rapidly than felsic minerals
I think it is erosion or deposition