Inside of the Earth Tectonics Relative Rock Dating Rock Types Miscellaneous
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What is the crust?
It's not just on a pizza: This top layer of the e=Earth's interior is, on average 25 miles thick
100
What is a normal fault?
A fault where the two rock boundaries are being pulled apart
100
What is radioactive carbon dating?
This modern process can accurately date strata without reference rocks
100
What is the way they were formed?
The different rock categories are based off of this defining difference
100
What is a syncline
This fold has the youngest strata in the center
200
What is oceanic crust?
This portion of the uppermost layer of the Earth's interior is the denser of the two, and referred to as "sima"
200
What is a transform boundary?
This boundary type is where you would find a "strike-slip fault"
200
What is the law of superposition?
This law states that layers on the bottom are oldest, and layers on the top are youngest
200
What are metamorphic rocks?
These rocks form from intense heat and pressure
200
What is the Anthropocene/Holocene?
This is the current Epoch
300
What are plates?
The Lithosphere is divided into 15 of these culinary-esque objects
300
What is orogeny?
This process, propelled through converging continental-continental plates literally "moves mountains"
300
What is the law of lateral continuity?
This law states that rock layers will continue until they encounter a new environment
300
What is magma?
Lava inside of the Earth has this fiery name
300
What is the Hadean?
This "devilish" Period saw the very early formation of the Earth
400
What is radioactive decay, leftover heat from planetary formation, or inner/outer core boundary reactions?
One of these 3 sources of the Earth's core's heat
400
What is a divergent boundary?
This boundary type created the Great Rift Valley in Africa
400
What is "any rock inclusion is older than the rock that contains it"
The meaning of the principle of inclusions
400
What are clastic sedimentary rocks?
This type of sedimentary rock is formed through the bonding of different rock sediments
400
What is 287°
The Azimuth of N73°W is
500
What are mantle plumes?
Aloha! The Hawaiian Islands are an example of this volcanic feature which occurs thanks to convection currents in the Earth's mantle
500
What is a hanging wall block?
I hope it doesn't fall! The name of the rock layer above the strike
500
What are batholiths, sills, dikes, or laccoliths?
These are one of the four main types of igneous intrusions
500
What are organic sedimentary rocks?
This type of sedimentary rock is formed the cementation of biological matter
500
What is dormant?
A volcano that could erupt but will not in the foreseeable future is known as this term






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