Geology ch 6-9
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| A clastic sedimentary rock composed of sand-sized grains that include quartz and feldspar. | show 🗑
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| A distinct layer of sedimentary strata. | show 🗑
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| Sedimentary rock formed from material (such as shells) produced by living organisms. | show 🗑
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| show | breccia
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| show | cementation
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| show | chemical sedimentary rock
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| show | clatic sedimenary rock
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| A fragment of detritus (e.g., a sand grain or a pebble). | show 🗑
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| Very coarse-grained sedimentary rock consisting of rounded clasts. | show 🗑
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| A lamination inclined to the main bedding; it represents the slip face of a layer deposited in a current. | show 🗑
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| The process by which sediment settles out of a transporting medium. | show 🗑
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| Changes that happen to sediment or sedimentary rock during and subsequent to lithification but at temperatures less than that of the lowest grade metamorphism. | show 🗑
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| A type of carbonate sedimentary rock that contains significant quantities of dolomite. | show 🗑
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| show | erosion
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| A depression, created as a consequence of subsidence, that fills with sediment. | show 🗑
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| A layer of clastic sediment or sedimentary rock in which clast size progressively decreases from the base to the top of the bed; graded beds form by deposition from a turbidity current. | show 🗑
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| Sedimentary rock composed of calcite. | show 🗑
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| The transformation of loose sediment into solid rock through compaction and cementation. | show 🗑
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| Very fine-grained sedimentary rock that will not easily split into sheets. | show 🗑
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| show | organic sedimentary rock
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| show | regression
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| Wave-like ridges and troughs on the surface of a sedimentary layer formed during deposition in a current. | show 🗑
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| show | sandstone
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| Rock that forms either by the cementing together of fragments broken off preexisting rock or by the precipitation of mineral crystals out of water solutions at or near the EarthԳ surface. | show 🗑
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| show | sedimentary structure
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| Very fine-grained sedimentary rock that breaks into thin sheets. | show 🗑
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| Fine-grained sedimentary rock generally composed of very small quartz grains. | show 🗑
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| show | sorting
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| show | strata
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| show | stratgraphic formation
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| show | subsidence
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| show | transgression
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| show | travertine
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| A submarine avalanche of sediment and water that speeds down a submarine slope. | show 🗑
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| Metamorphism due to the increase in temperature and pressure in a rock when it has been buried to a depth of several kilometers. | show 🗑
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| Metamorphism caused by heat conducted into country rock from an igneous intrusion. | show 🗑
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| show | dynamic metamorphism
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| Metamorphism that involves heat, pressure, and shearing. | show 🗑
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| The process (involving uplift and erosion) that returns deeply buried rocks to the surface. | show 🗑
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| Layering formed as a consequence of the alignment of mineral grains, or of compositional banding in a metamorphic rock. | show 🗑
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| A compositionally banded metamorphic rock typically composed of alternating dark- and light-colored layers. | show 🗑
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| show | hornfels
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| show | hydrothermal metamorphism
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| show | marble
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| Conglomerate that has undergone metamorphism, but in which clasts are still recognizable; typically the clasts are stretched or flattened. | show 🗑
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| show | metamorphic aureole
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| show | metamorphic facies
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| A fabric defined by parallel surfaces or layers that develop in a rock as a result of metamorphism; schistocity and gneissic layering are examples. | show 🗑
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| show | metamorphic grade
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| show | metamorphic mineral
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| show | metamorphic rock
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| show | metamorphic texture
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| show | metamorphic zone
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| show | metamorphism
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| show | metasomatism
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| show | migmatite
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| show | mylonite
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| show | phyllite
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| show | preferred mineral orientation
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| show | protolith
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| show | quartzite
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| show | regional metamorphism
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| show | schist
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| show | shield
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| show | shock metamorphism
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| Fine-grained, low-grade metamorphic rock, formed by the metamorphism of shale. | show 🗑
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| show | thermal metamorphism
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| show | aftershocks
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| show | body waves
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| Waves in which particles of material move back and forth parallel to the direction in which the wave itself moves. | show 🗑
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| show | displacement
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| show | earthquake
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| The concept that earthquakes occur when rock elastically bends until it fractures; the fracturing generates earthquake energy and decreases the elastic energy stored in the rock. | show 🗑
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| show | epicenter
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| show | fault
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| A small step on the ground surface where one side of a fault has moved vertically with respect to the other. | show 🗑
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| show | foreshocks
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| The point below the EarthԳ surface where the energy is produced during an earthquake. | show 🗑
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| Earthquake that occurs away from plate boundaries. | show 🗑
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| The transformation of seemingly solid sediment into a liquid-like slurry, in response to ground shaking. | show 🗑
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| show | magnitude
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| show | Mercalli intensity scale
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| show | moment-magnitude scale
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| show | recurrence interval
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| A scale that defines earthquakes on the basis of the amplitude of the largest ground motion recorded on a seismogram. | show 🗑
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| show | seismic belt
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| Earthquake activity. | show 🗑
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| Waves of energy emitted at the focus of an earthquake. | show 🗑
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| show | seismograph
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| show | shear waves
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| show | stick-slip behavior
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| show | surface waves
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| show | tsunami
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| A sloping band of seismicity defined by intermediate- and deep-focus earthquakes that occur in the down-going slab of a convergent plate boundary. | show 🗑
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| A fold with an arch-like shape in which the limbs dip away from the hinge. | show 🗑
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| In the context of folds, this is the imaginary plane that contains the hinge lines of successive layers in the fold; it is the surface that divides a fold into its two separate limbs. | show 🗑
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| A fold or depression shaped like a right-side-up bowl. | show 🗑
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| show | brittle deformation
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| A push or squeezing felt by a body. | show 🗑
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| A long-lived block of durable continental crust commonly found in the stable interior of a continent. | show 🗑
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| A change in the shape, position, or orientation of a material, by bending, breaking, or flowing. | show 🗑
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| The angle at which a layer tilts, relative to horizontal; the angle is measured in an imaginary vertical plane that trends perpendicular to the strike. | show 🗑
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| show | displacement
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| Folded or arched layers with the shape of an overturned bowl. | show 🗑
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| show | ductile deformation
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| show | fault
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| show | fault scarp
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| A bend or wrinkle of rock layers or foliation; folds form as a consequence of ductile deformation. | show 🗑
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| Layering formed as a consequence of the alignment of mineral grains, or of compositional banding in a metamorphic rock. | show 🗑
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| show | global positioning system
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| The portion of a fold where curvature is greatest. | show 🗑
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| The condition that exists when the buoyancy force pushing lithosphere up equals the gravitational force pulling lithosphere down. | show 🗑
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| Naturally formed cracks in rocks | show 🗑
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| The side of a fold, showing less curvature than at the hinge. | show 🗑
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| show | monocline
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| show | normal fault
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| show | orogenic collapse
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| show | orogen
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| Force per unit area, or the ѰushѠacting on a material in cases where the push is the same in all directions. | show 🗑
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| show | reverse fault
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| show | shear stress
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| show | shield
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| show | strain
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| show | stress
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| show | strike
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| show | strike-slip fault
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| show | syncline
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| show | tension
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| A gently dipping reverse fault; the hanging-wall block moves up the slope of the fault. | show 🗑
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| show | uplift
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| A seam of minerals that forms when dissolved ions carried by water solutions precipitate in cracks. | show 🗑
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