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| Driving force behind Plate Tectonics. The heat transfer from the earths interior to exterior |
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| Carved by Alpine Glaciers |
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| Steep Walled, Bowl Shaped |
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| Tributary valley that has been isolated by down cutting of the glaciers in the main valley |
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| Jagged ridges along the divide produced by erosion of cirque or tributary glaciers |
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| Parallel scratches show direction of movement |
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Slowest mass wasting (mm/year)
Unconsolidated material moves slowly down slope under influence of gravity |
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| Rapid slide of unconsolidated material |
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| Material dissolves in water |
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| Water chemically reacts with minerals and breaks them down |
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| Large Cone shaped. Mt Rainer |
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| Symmetrical and have deep craters at their summit |
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| After a major eruption may collapse into the large, drained magma chamber below. |
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| Right lateral Strike Slip |
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| Single channels that form on steep to low slopes. Fast Flowing |
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| Miultiple chanels that split and rejoin |
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bedding sediments at an angle to horizontal.
Formed from wind or water |
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| Bed progress from coarse grain at bottom to fine grains at the top |
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| wave lines on the top of sand or silt by waves or currents |
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| arrays of gashes at the surface of a bed formed when mud dries out and shrinks |
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| Dendritic Drainage Pattern |
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| pattern of branches connected to a trunk of a tree |
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| surface of a cone shaped mountain and flow outward from the mountain peak |
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| Rectangular Drainage Pattern |
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| rectangular grid of fractures and channels form in pre existing fractures. Streams join at right angles |
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| Earthquakes scales based on observed facts |
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| What will happen to a glacier same accumulation as ablation |
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| Glacier will remain the same |
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| Intrusive igneous rocks eroded away |
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| Short term Glacial Fluctuations |
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1. Eccentricity of Orbit
2. Tilt of Earths axis of rotation
3. Precession earths axis wobbles like a top |
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| Most abundant mineral group in crust |
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