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19 Cards in this Set
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Anticline |
Upwards hill |
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Syncline |
Downwards hill |
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How to measure earthquakes? |
Moment Magnitude Scale |
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Horst |
Upwards |
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Graben |
Downwards |
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Stream load |
Materials carried or transported by stream |
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Suspended load |
Finer particles (clay, silt, sand) |
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Bed load |
Particles and debris along bottom (Rolling) |
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River bars |
Exceeds transporting capacity these build up |
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Aggradation |
Causes water level to rise due to river bars |
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Thalweg |
Deepest and fastest water |
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Deposition occurs on... |
Opposite side of flow |
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Snow that has not been compressed to ice |
Firn |
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Bowl shaped glacier |
Cirque |
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Horn |
Tip of the mountain |
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Arete |
Every point but the horn |
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Pahoehoe |
Brownie, Smooth lava |
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A'A' |
Rough lava |
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Tephra |
solid matter released from volcanic eruption |
