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15 Cards in this Set
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A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume
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Stress
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Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle
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Tension
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Stress that squeezes rock until it forlds or breaks
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Compression
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Stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions
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Shearing
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A fault in which the hanging wall slips downward below the footwall
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Normal Fault
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A fault in which the hanging wall slides up and over the footwall
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Reverse Fault
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A fault where there is little up and down motion and the rocks slip past each other sideways
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strike-slip fault
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The rock that lies above the fault line
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Hanging wall
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The rock that lies below the fault line
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Footwall
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An upward fold in rock formed by compression of the earth's crust creating an arch
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Anticline
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A downward fold in a rock formed by compression in the earth's crust to creating a valley.
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Syncline
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A large area of a flat land elevated high above sea level
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plateau
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The amount of spaca a rock takes up
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Volume
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A break in the earth's crust
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Fault
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Parallel ridges and valleys
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folded mountains
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