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20 Cards in this Set
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deformation
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folding faulting shearing compression or extension of rocks
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stress
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the firce per unit acting on a solid
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strain
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the change of shape or volume in a body of rock
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anticline
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a fold in sedimentary thats arked
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syncline
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downfold ark
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monocline
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large steplike fold
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normal fault
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where rock sinks under other fault
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reverse fault
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where a fault gous up
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thrust fault
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a rwverse fault with a 45degree or less
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strickslip fault
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a horizontal fault next to anather
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orogenises
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the process of making mountins
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folded mountiab
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mountin made from compression stress
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graben
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vally from downword displacement
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horst
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block of crust held by faults
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accretion
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cruat from anather plate slide to anather
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terrane
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crustal block held by faults with a difrent history
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isostatic adjustment
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new level of gravatational equalibreum
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