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Subduction

Result of compression of plates that creates a trench

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DSDP

Deep Sea Drilling Program

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Mechanical Weathering

A process that breaks down rock and soil through physical action

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Rift

Result of tension that forms a volcanic mountain chain on land

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Divergent

Result of tension that causes plates to form

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Magnetism

Is found in rocks near a M.O.R. that was used as evidence of plate tectonics

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Transform

Boundary type that has shear forces on it

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Island Arc

Result of tension that forms a volcanic mountain chain near a coastline or beach

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Convection Currents

This force is what causes seafloor spreading to occur

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Convergent

Boundary type that has gravitational forces on it

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Chemical Weathering

A process that breaks down rock and soil through a reaction

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Erosion

A process that transports rock and soil through a reaction

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Meander

Shape of a river where the water on the inside of the bend has slower moving water

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Confluence

Part of a river where two flows join

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Headwaters

Also known as the source of a river

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Oxbow

Heavy meander of a river that has reversed the flow

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Delta

Found at the mouth of the river

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Eon/Era/Period/Epoch

Hierarchy of time

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Absolute Dating

Used to determine the age of a rock layer

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Index Fossil

Type of fossil found in or near a river

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Stratigraphy

The branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers and layering

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Relative Dating

The science of determining the relative order of past events

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Cinder Cone Volcano

Felsic Volcano that is very steep and usually short

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Pyroclastic flow

Extremely dangerous explosion that forces ash, cinders, and rocks down the mountain at 200 mph

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Aa

Hawaiian term for a blocky and sharp lava flow

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S-wave

Wave that moves perpendicular to the direction an earthquake wave travels, and only travels through solids

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Pahoehoe

Hawaiian term for a smooth, rope-like lava flow

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Seismic Wave

Mechanical waves of energy that move through the earth at different speeds

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Tephra

Different sizes of volcanic material that get released from a volcano

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Shield Volcano

Volcano formed from mafic magma that has a broad and fairly flat shape

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P-wave

Fastest wave that will arrive first in an earthquake and can move through liquids, solids, and gasses

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Strato / Composite Volcano

Volcano formed from andesitic magma that forms from oceanic and continental plates colliding

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