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2
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A geological state that may lead to widespread damage or risk.
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9
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A mud flow composed of water, rocky material, and debris.
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10
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Sediment with particles larger than silt.
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11
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A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
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12
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A super continent made up of all land masses that supposedly once existed.
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13
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Particles between clay and sand in size.
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14
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A cavity in the ground caused by water erosion.
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15
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The border between basement and sedimentary rock.
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17
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The point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
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19
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Two plates pushing into each other.
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20
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A fault where rock is displaced in a horizontal direction.
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21
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an idealized cycle of processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusion.
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22
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Two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
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24
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The layering of metamorphic rock on top of itself.
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25
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A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust.
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26
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term used in science that refers to the geological process of rocks breaking apart without changing their chemical composition.
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27
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When plates slide past each other,
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33
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A type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using contour lines, but historically using a variety of methods.
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34
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A mountain with a vent that lava comes out of.
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35
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P-waves are a type of elastic wave, and are one of the two main types of elastic body waves, called seismic waves in seismology, that travel through a continuum and are the first waves from an earthquake to arrive at a seismograph.
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36
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The layer between the crust and outer core.
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37
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Hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure.
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38
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The gradual breaking down of something by wind, water, ice, or some other natural agent.
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39
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Sediment with particles smaller than silt.
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40
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A break in a body of rock.
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