Ch 5-7
Weathering and ErosionVocabulary
 Chemical weathering
 Differential weathering
 Dissolution
 Erosion
 Exfoliation dome
 External process
 Frost wedging
 Hydrolysis
 Internal processes
 Mass wasting
 Mechanical weathering
 Oxidation
 Regolith
 Sheeting
 Spheroidal weathering
 Weathering
Ch 3
 Sedimentary Rocks
 Beds (strata)
 Cementation
 Chemical sedimentary rock
 Clastic texture
 Compaction
 Crystalline texture
 Detrital sedimentary rock
 Evaporite deposit
 Lithification
 Organic sedimentary rock
 Sorting
 Strata
Ch. 11
 Structural Geology Vocabulary
 Anticline
 Basin
 Compressional stress
 Deformation
 Dip
 Dip-slip fault
 Dome
 Fault
 Fault-block mountain
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Fault scarp
Fold
Foot wall block
Graben
Hanging wall block
Horst
Joint
Monocline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Rock structure
Stress
Strike
Strike-slip fault
Syncline
Tensional stress
Thrust fault
Transform fault
Ch. 8
Earthquakes
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Aftershock
Body wave
Earthquake
Elastic rebound
Epicenter
Fault
Focus
Foreshock
Intensity
Liquefaction
Magnitude
Primary P wave/compressional wave
Richter scale
Secondary or shear wave
Seismic gap method
Seismogram
Seismograph
Surface wave
Tsunami
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Ch. 10
Volcano Vocabulary
Basaltic composition
Batholiths
Caldera
Cinder cone
Composite cone
Continental volcanic arc
Crater
Dikes
Eruption column
Hot spot
Island arc Laccoliths
Lahar
Plutons
Pyroclastic flow
Shield volcano
Stratovolcano
Vent
Viscosity
Volcanic island arc
Volcano
Ch. 3
Igneous Rocks
Coarse-grained texture
Crystallization
Extrusive igneous rocks
Felsic
Fine-grained texture
Glassy texture
Groundmass
Granitic composition
Igneous rocks
Intrusive igneous rocks
Lava
Mafic
Magma
Plutonic rocks
Porphyritic texture
Pumice
Texture
Vesicular texture
Volcanic rocks
Chapteer 9
Plate tectonics
 Continental drift
 Pangaea
 Plate tectonics
 Lithosphere
 Asthenospher
 Diverget boundary
 Convergent boundary
 Transform fault boundary
 Oceanic ridge
 Rift valley
 Seafloor spreading
 Trench
 Continental volcanic arc
 Volcanic island arc
 Paleomagnetism
 normal polarity
 reverse polarity
 hot spot
 convectrive flow
 slab-pull
 ridge-push
 mantle plume