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    The document is a student's assignment responses for their Engineering Geology course. In the first response, the student defines a country rock as the usual geological strata native to an area, similar to basement or wall rocks, that denotes the typical rock composition of a region compared to other rocks. The second response explains that magma within the Earth has varying compositions because the constant melting and crystallization of different rocks in the Earth's outer core results in magma with different constituents solidifying into rocks of different compositions compared to the original melted rocks.

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    Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi College of Engineering Civil Engineering Department

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    The document is a student's assignment responses for their Engineering Geology course. In the first response, the student defines a country rock as the usual geological strata native to an area, similar to basement or wall rocks, that denotes the typical rock composition of a region compared to other rocks. The second response explains that magma within the Earth has varying compositions because the constant melting and crystallization of different rocks in the Earth's outer core results in magma with different constituents solidifying into rocks of different compositions compared to the original melted rocks.

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    KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE

    AND TECHNOLOGY, KUMASI


    COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
    CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

    Name: Kwasi Gyimah Bempong


    Index Number: 5862816
    Course: Engineering Geology (CE 259)
    Civil Engineering Year 2
    1) What is a country rock?
    Country rock is a geological term meaning the rock native to an area. It is
    similar and in many cases interchangeable with the terms basement and wall
    rocks. The term is used to denote the usual strata of a region in relation to the
    rock which is being discussed or observed.

    2) Why would magma within the Earth have different compositions?


    This is because there is constant melting of igneous, sedimentary and
    metamorphic rocks in the outer core of the Earth. During crystallization,
    some parts of the magmas constituents solidify to form completely different
    rocks of different compositions relative to the ones that melted into magma.
    This makes the composition of magma vary in constituents at a given time.

    REFERENCES
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_rock_(geology)

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