Forces in the Earth's Crust
This type of stress causes two rocks to slip past one another.
What is shearing?
A seismograph does this.
What is records seismic waves?
The super Content name in which all continents were once connected.
What is Pangea?
This volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
In this kind of fault, the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
What is a reverse fault?
The bowl-shaped feature created after a volcano eruption
What is a crater?
The location where Sea-flooring Spreading Starts
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
This is molten rock below ground?
What is magma
This Process is located at a deep ocean trench where denser ocean crust sinks beneath continental Crust.
What is subduction?
This type of volcano is a very steep cone shaped hill or mountain.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
What is silica content?
The force that Albert Wegner could prove existed that caused the continents to move.
What are Convection Currents in the Mantle?
This is a high level area formed by rising underground lava.
What is a lava plateau?
________ provides the force that causes magma to erupt to the surface
What is trapped gases in the Magma
The type of Technology that was used to Find Mid-Ocean Ridges with Marie Tharp.
What is a Sonar?
This is a hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain.
What is a caldera?