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36 relations: Accretionary wedge, Albert Heim, Alfred Elis Törnebohm, Alps, Appalachian Mountains, Archibald Geikie, Arnold Escher von der Linth, Ben Peach, Charles Lapworth, Continental crust, Décollement, Glarus thrust, Halite, Himalayas, Horse (geology), John Horne, Klippe, Madison Group, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, Mélange, Moine Thrust Belt, Montana, Mountain, Mudstone, Oceanic trench, Orogeny, Peneplain, Plate tectonics, Sandstone, Scotland, Strike and dip, Subduction, United States Geological Survey, University of California, Santa Barbara, Window (geology), 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Accretionary wedge
An accretionary wedge or accretionary prism forms from sediments accreted onto the non-subducting tectonic plate at a convergent plate boundary.
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Albert Heim
Albert Heim (12 April 184931 August 1937) was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.
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Alfred Elis Törnebohm
Alfred Elis Törnebohm (16 October 1838 – 21 April 1911) was a Swedish geologist, best known today for his study of the overthrust of the Caledonian range.
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Alps
The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.
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Archibald Geikie
Sir Archibald Geikie (28 December 183510 November 1924), was a Scottish geologist and writer.
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Arnold Escher von der Linth
Arnold Escher von der Linth (8 June 1807 in Zürich12 July 1872) was a Swiss geologist, the son of Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767-1823).
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Ben Peach
Benjamin Neeve Peach, FRS FRSE FGS LLD (6 September 1842 – 29 January 1926) was a British geologist.
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Charles Lapworth
Prof Charles Lapworth FRS LLD FGS (20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920) was an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.
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Continental crust
Continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.
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Décollement
Décollement (from the French décoller, 'to detach from') is a gliding plane between two rock masses, also known as a basal detachment fault.
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Glarus thrust
The Glarus thrust (Glarner Überschiebung) is a major thrust fault in the Alps of eastern Switzerland.
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Halite
Halite, commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride (NaCl).
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
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Horse (geology)
Horse is the geological technical term used for any block of rock completely separated from the surrounding rock either by mineral veins or fault planes.
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John Horne
John Horne PRSE FRS FRSE FEGS LLD (1 January 1848 – 30 May 1928) was a Scottish geologist.
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Klippe
window or fenster. The klippe is the isolated block of the nappe overlying autochthonous material. A klippe (German for cliff or crag) is a geological feature of thrust fault terrains.
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Madison Group
The Madison Limestone is a thick sequence of mostly carbonate rocks of Mississippian age in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains areas of western United States.
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Marcel Alexandre Bertrand
He studied at the École Polytechnique, and beginning in 1869 he attended the Ecole des Mines de Paris.
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Mélange
In geology, a mélange is a large-scale breccia, a mappable body of rock characterized by a lack of continuous bedding and the inclusion of fragments of rock of all sizes, contained in a fine-grained deformed matrix.
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Moine Thrust Belt
The Moine Thrust Belt is a linear geological feature in the Scottish Highlands which runs from Loch Eriboll on the north coast south-west to the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye.
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Montana
Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.
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Mountain
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.
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Mudstone
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
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Oceanic trench
Oceanic trenches are topographic depressions of the sea floor, relatively narrow in width, but very long.
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Orogeny
An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.
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Peneplain
In geomorphology and geology a peneplain is a low-relief plain formed by protracted erosion.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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Strike and dip
Strike and dip refer to the orientation or attitude of a geologic feature.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (commonly referred to as UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public research university and one of the 10 campuses of the University of California system.
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Window (geology)
hanging wall block is (when it has reasonable proportions) called a nappe. If an erosional hole is created in the nappe that is called a window. A klippe is a solitary outcrop of the nappe in the middle of autochthonous material. A tectonic window (or Fenster (lit. "window" in German)) is a geologic structure formed by erosion or normal faulting on a thrust system.
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1994 Northridge earthquake
The 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST and had its epicenter in Reseda, a neighborhood in the north-central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, USA.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_fault
