Faults Of Our Earth

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Lithosphere

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Therigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

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Tectonic Plates

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When two sub-layers of the earth's crust that moves, float, and sometimes fracture and whose interaction causes continential drift, earthquakes, volcanos, mountains, and oceanic trenches.

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Divergent Boundaries

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It's a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

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Convergent Boundaries

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It's a actively deforming region where two techtonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.

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Transform Boundary

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Plate boundary since these faults neither create nor destroy lithosphere, is a type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly.

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Convection Current

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A current in a fluid that results from convection.

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Strata

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plural form of stratum.

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Pangea

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Pangea is a hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been existence before the continents broke apart during the triassic and jurassic periods.

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Theory of Continential Drift

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A theory stating that the earth's continents have been joined together and have moved away from each other at different times in the earth's history.

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Faults

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An unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially i a piece of work or in a persons character.

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Dip-Slip Fault

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It is casued by a combination of shearing and tension or compressional forces.

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Strike-Slip Fault

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A fualt in which rock starta are displaced mainley in a horizontal direction, parallel to the line of the fualt.