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15 Cards in this Set
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anticline
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up curved fold in horizontal rock layers
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compression
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stress that squeezes crustal rocks together
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deformation
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bending, tilting, and breaking of the earth's crust
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dome mountain
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landforms created when molted rock pushes up rock layers on the earth's surface and the layers then are worn away in places, leaving separate high peaks
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fault
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break in rock along which rocks on either side of the break move
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fault plane
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surface of a fault along which movement of rocks occurs
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fault block mountain
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mountain formed where faulting breaks the Earth’s crust into large blocks that become tilted, causing some blocks to drop down relative to other blocks
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folded mountain
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landforms created when tectonic movements bend and uplift
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folding
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permanent deformation or bending of a rock under stress
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footwall
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in a non-vertical fault, the rock below the fault plane
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anticline
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up curved fold in horizontal rock layers
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compression
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stress that squeezes crustal rocks together
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deformation
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bending, tilting, and breaking of the earth's crust
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dome mountain
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landforms created when molted rock pushes up rock layers on the earth's surface and the layers then are worn away in places, leaving separate high peaks
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fault
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break in rock along which rocks on either side of the break move
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