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| Earth's plates ____ through time |
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| Our present day plates are made up of ______ ? |
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| Both continental crust and ocean crust |
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| Tennessee lays on which plate? |
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| Divergent Plate Boundaries |
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Plates are pulling apart.
Crust is being made. |
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| Convergent Plate Boundaries |
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Plates are coming together (colliding).
Crust is being destroyed. |
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| Transform Plate Boundaries |
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| Plates slide by each other. |
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Missing portion of the Geologic Record.
(Angular Uncomformity, Disconrmity, Nonconformity) |
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| The Earth is made up of 3 distinctive layers. What are they? |
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| Divergent (plates move away) |
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The long, narrow zone where the two plates meet.
(convergent plate boundaries) |
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| One plate is pulled beneath another -->forming a deep trench. |
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| convergent (plates move toward one another) |
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Plate rides over plume of hot mantle.
Think lava lamp
Creates a line of volcanoes. |
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Continental Rift,
Ancient Continental Rift,
Passive Continental Margin,
Ancient Passive Continental Margin |
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Definition
| Divergent Plate Boundaries |
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| Divergent Plate Boundaries |
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Wide, parallel bands of YOUNG ROCK
topographically low
cross-cute by recent deposits of the Mississippi river.
horizontal rock layering position
passive margin tectonic setting |
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| Atlantic Plain has a ____ rock layer position and a ______ tectonic setter. |
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| Characteristics of National Parks and Seashores along Passive Continental Margins |
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| Not much tectonic acitivy presently, above zone of transiion from thnk continental |
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| appalachian highlands & interior highlands |
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Definition
narrow, parrallel
curiving bands of steeply inclined old rock
highly deformed in most places
mix of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
topographically high
tectonic setting: CONVERGENT MOUNTAIN BELT |
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| bedstone metamorphic granite |
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