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Environmental Studies
Undergraduate 4
07/12/2010

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fountain of asthenospheric rock below a got spot
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mantle plum
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source of heat for the interior of earth
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radioactive decay
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fine grain, deep-sea, organic deposit on the ocean floor
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oozes
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preserved magnetic polarity in a rock
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paleomagnitism
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name for an atom that is electrically charge because of an excess or deficit of electrons
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ions
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submerged, large, deeply eroded valley that extends across the shelf and slope
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submarine canyon
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gnereal term for sediment eroded from content or volcanic island
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lithogenic sediment
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rock type that copses the continent
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granite
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flat and featureless part of the sea floor
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abyssal plains
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transportation by bouncing
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saltation
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