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| Upcurved fold in horizontal rock layers. |
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| Stress that squeezes crustal rocks together. |
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| Outermost zone o the solid Earth. |
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| Bending, tilting, and breaking of the Earth's crust. |
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| Landform created when molten rock pushes up rock layers then are worn away in places, leaving separate high peaks. |
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| Break in rock along which roks on either side of the break move. |
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| Mountain formed where faulting breaks the earth's crust into large blocks and the blocks are uplifted and tilted. |
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| Permanent deformation or bending of a rock under stress. |
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| Rock below a fault plane. |
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| Break in rock along which there is no movement. |
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| Rock above a normal fault plane. |
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| Fault where both the plates slide past each other. |
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| Fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall. |
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| Large area of flat-topped rocks high above sea level. |
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| Fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall. |
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| Steep, narrow valley formed as lithospheric plates separate. |
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| Stress that pushes rocks in opposite directions. |
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| Amount of force per unit area placed on given material. |
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| Downward fold in rock layers, youngest is in the center. |
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| Stress that pulls rocks apart. |
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| Type of reverse fault where one layer goes up and over. |
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