Geology Questions

A record that includes both geologic events and major developments in the evolution of life

______ __________ 1880-1930 a German meteorologist and polar explorer proposed the theory of continental drift in 1912

Alfred Wegner believed that all of earth's land masses were once attached in a single super __________

A _____ fault is a result of compressional stress

A _____ fault is a result of tensional (extensional) stress

extensional forces lead to _____ _____ developing into a basin

When you have divergent boundaries you have ____ ______

______ ___ _______ are long, narrow, steep-sided depression in the ocean bottom.

Melt rises as ______ at a line of weakness in the ocean crust

it emerges as _____, creating new crust upon cooling (basalt)

Mantle upwellin leads to the generation of ______

Mid-Ocean Ridges are _______ ridges near the middle of ocean basins

When you have tension it produces ______ _____

Harry Hess and Robert Diets introduced the idea of ________ currents

Divergent plate boundaries cause ___ ______ ________ and _________ _________

_____ and _____ are types of structural features created by deformation

When rock breaks and fractures as a result of too much stress during crustal deformation, this is called...

Abyssal plains are _____ areas of the ocean floor

Faults are created as a result of _____ deformation

Deformation is when _____ causes the position of a rock to change