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Kramer Geology Chapter 17 Advanced

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Place where two of Earth's tectonic plates are moving toward each other; is associated with trenches, island arcs, and folded mountains   Convergent boundary  
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Wegener's hypothesis that Earth's continents were joined as a single landmass, called Pangaea, that broke apart about 200 million years ago and slowly moved to their present positions.   Continental drift  
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Place where two of Earth's tectonic plates are moving apart; is associated with volcanism, earthquakes, and high heat flow, and is found primarily on the seafloor   Divergent boundary  
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Line on a map that connects points of the same age   Isochron  
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Changes in Earth's magnetic field over geologic time, recorded in ocean-floor rocks and continental basalt flows   Magnetic reversal  
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Device used to map the ocean floor that detects small changes in magnetic fields   Masgnetometer  
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Study of Earth's magnetic record using data gathered from iron-bearing minerals in rocks that have recorded the orientation of Earth's magnetic field at the time of their formation   Paleomagnetism  
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Ancient landmass made up of all the continents that began to break apart about 200 million years ago   Pangaea  
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Tectonic process associated with convection currents in Earth's mantle that occurs when the weight of an elevated ridge pushes an oceanic plate toward a subduction zone   Ridge push  
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Long, narrow depression that forms when continental crust begins to separate at a divergent boundary   Rift Valley  
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Hess's theory that new ocean crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and destroyed at deep-sea trenches; occurs in a continuous cycle of magma intrusion and spreading   Seafloor spreading  
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Tectonic process associated with convection currents in Earth's mantle that occurs as the weight of the subducting plate pulls the trailing lithosphere into a subduction zone   Slab pull  
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Process by which on tectonic plate slips beneath another tectonic plate   Subduction  
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States that Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into plates, which are huge rock slabs that move in different directions and at different rates over Earth's surface   Theory of Plate Tectonics  
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Place where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other that is characterized by long faults and shallow earthquakes   Transorm boundary  
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