- 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