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Meteorology
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Term | Definition |
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Amber | Fossilized tree sap |
Fossil | The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock. |
Cast | A mold filled with sediment and hardened to create a replica of the original fossil |
Index Fossil | A fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found. |
Mold | An impression made by sediments by the hard parts of an organism |
Permineralization | |
Trace fossil | |
Cross-cutting relationships | One of Steno's principles that states that an intrusion or fault is younger than the rocks that it cuts through |
Geologic time | The divison of Earth's history distinguished by geologic and evolutionary events |
Lateral Continuity | A sedimentary rock layer that extends as wide as the basin in which it forms |
Original horizontality | Sedimentary layers that were formed horizontally |
Relative age | |
Superposition | |
Unconformity | |
Uniformitarianism | |
Absolute Age | The actual age of a mineral in years |
Half-life | The amount of time required for half of the atoms of a radioative substance to decay to the daughter product |
Ice core | long cylinder of glacial ice recovered |
Isotope | A chemical element that has a different number of protons |
Radiometric dating | |
Differentiation | The separation of planetary materials by density to create distictly different layers |
Outgassing | The transfer of gases from Earth's mantle to the atmosphere by volcanic eruption |
Supercontinent | |
Pangaea | |
Orogeny | A mountain building event. Takes up to 10-100 million years |
Evolution | The gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form. |
Natural Selection | the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. |