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| The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the distant past |
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| Horizontal layers of sediment |
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| The thin outermost layer of the Earth |
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| The solid rocky layer of Earth formed by the crust and the upper part of the mantle |
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| The thicklayer of dense rock that sits beneth Earths crust |
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| The pulling apart of plate boundries under the ocean floor |
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| An irregular ssection of the lithosphere that floats on Earth mantle |
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| A point on Earthssurface directly above the location of initial plate boundries |
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| The location where earthquake movement first occures |
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| The edge of a tectonic plate |
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| A wave that carries the energy released when rock moves a plate boundries |
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| A hige ocean wave usually caused by earthqakes under the ocean floor |
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