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Jay's geology terms
Jay's Earth's movement vocabulary
| definition | answer |
|---|---|
| balance between weight pushing down and buoyancy pushing up | isostasy |
| rock under high pressure | plastic |
| sedimentary basin | geosyncline |
| hypothesis of crustal structure | plate tectonics |
| the single southern continent | Gondwanaland |
| created when an oceanic plate bends downward | trench |
| rock made of angular fragments | breccia |
| rock made of mud or clay | shale |
| drowned glaciated valley | fjord |
| A pair of sediment deposits in a lake. | varve |
| The deepest part of the ocean. | abyssmal plain |
| A tear-drop shaped hill made of sediment left by a glacier. | drumlin |
| A line of debris or sediment left behind by a glacier. | moraine |
| A large rock transported by a glacier and deposited in another area. | erratic boulder |