Rocks and minerals
A solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth.
What are rocks?
A crack in the earths surface.
What is a fault?
Comes out of volcano
What is lava?
A buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages.
What is unconformity?
A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence.
What is a mineral?
The outermost layer of a planet.
What is crust?
A rupture in the Earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
A form of relative dating. an axiom that forms one of the bases of the sciences
What is the law of superposition?
Many rocks put together into one.
What are sedimentary rocks?
A fluid layer about 2,400 km (1,500 mi) thick and composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core.
What is the earth's outer core?
Caused by tectonic plate motion.
What is an earthquake?
The process of determining an age on a specified chronology in archaeology and geology.
What is absolute dating?
One of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
What is igneous?
A layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.
What is mantle?
Causes earthquakes when they move.
What are tectonic plates?
First proposed by Danish geological pioneer Nicholas Steno in the 17th century. The law states that layers of sediment were originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity.
What is the law of original horizontality?
The rock goes through a metamorphosis, the original rock is subjected to heat and pressure, causing profound physical or chemical change.
What is metamorphic
One of two cores in the earth's crust made of iron and has a radius of about 760 miles.
What is the Earth's inner core?
Not Lava. This hot material lies below or within the earth's crust.
What is magma?
An igneous intrusion is always younger than the rock it cuts across
What is the law of cross-cutting?