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145 relations: Abyssal plain, Accretion (geology), Afar Triple Junction, Altiplano, Aspen anomaly, Baikal Rift Zone, Basalt, Boring Billion, Calcium carbonate, Cameroon line, Central African Shear Zone, Cerro Tuzgle, Cima volcanic field, Circumstellar habitable zone, Cocos Plate, Colorado Plateau, Continental arc, Continental collision, Crater Basalt volcanic field, Craton, Delamination (geology), Denning (Martian crater), Depth of focus (tectonics), Divergent boundary, Donegal batholith, Earth, Earth Revealed: Introductory Geology, Earth science, Easter Microplate, Eburnean orogeny, Eclogite, Flat slab subduction, Flatlander (short story), Galán, Galápagos Islands, Geology, Geology of the Iberian Peninsula, Geology of Venus, Glarus thrust, Glossary of geology, Grenville orogeny, Guyot, Hollister Ridge, Iceland plume, Imbabura Volcano, Index of geology articles, Infiernillo (volcanic group), Irruputuncu, Isostasy, Isostatic depression, ..., Isua Greenstone Belt, John Tuzo Wilson, Kimberlite, Lachlan Fold Belt, Lamprophyre, Laramide orogeny, Lehmann discontinuity, List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A, List of Greek and Latin roots in English/S, List of plate tectonics topics, List of submarine topographical features, Lithosphere, Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundary, Lithospheric flexure, Louis Lliboutry, Low-velocity zone, Magmatism, Mantle (geology), Mantle convection, Mantle plume, Mesoplates, Mesosphere (mantle), Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Mid-ocean ridge, Moctezuma volcanic field, Mohorovičić discontinuity, Mount Erciyes, Mount Garibaldi, Nazca Ridge, Nevado de Longaví, Ngaoundere Plateau, North China Craton, Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, Northern North Sea basin, Nutation, Oceanic trench, Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean, Orogeny, Outer trench swell, Outline of Earth sciences, Paraná and Etendeka traps, Parinacota (volcano), Passive margin, Past sea level, Plate tectonics, Plating (geology), Pole shift hypothesis, Porphyry copper deposit, Potrillo volcanic field, Puyuhuapi (volcanic group), Qal'eh Hasan Ali, Rare-earth element, Río Murta (volcano), Ridge push, Rift, Rio Grande rift, River anticlines, San Quintín Volcanic Field, Scandinavian Mountains, Seafloor spreading, Sedimentary rock, Sial, Siletzia, Sillajhuay, Slab detachment, Slab gap hypothesis, Slab pull, Stratovolcano, Structure of the Earth, Subcontinental lithospheric mantle, Subduction, Submarine earthquake, Subsidence, Tarava seamounts, Taryatu-Chulutu, Tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains, Tectonics, Tectonophysics, Tengchong volcanic field, Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (before 1954), Tor Zawar, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Tunkin Depression, Udokan Plateau, Vilama (caldera), Viscosity, Volcanology of Mars, Wadati–Benioff zone, Waipiata, Warren B. Hamilton, Weizhou Island, Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field, West African Craton, Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand Basin. Expand index (95 more) »
Abyssal plain
An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between and.
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Accretion (geology)
Accretion, in geology, is a process by which material is added to a tectonic plate or a landmass.
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Afar Triple Junction
The Afar Triple Junction (also called the Afro-Arabian Rift System) is located along a divergent plate boundary dividing the Nubian, Somalian, and Arabian plates.
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Altiplano
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla"), Andean Plateau or Bolivian Plateau, in west-central South America, is the area where the Andes are the widest.
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Aspen anomaly
Aspen anomaly is a geological structure in Colorado, United States.
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Baikal Rift Zone
The Baikal Rift Zone is a series of continental rifts centered beneath Lake Baikal in southeastern Russia.
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Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.
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Boring Billion
The Boring Billion is a term coined by palaeontologist Martin Brasier to refer to the approximately one billion-year period between 1.8 and 0.8 Ga in Earth's history that is characterized by environmental, evolutionary, and lithospheric stability.
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Calcium carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the formula CaCO3.
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Cameroon line
The Cameroon line is a chain of volcanoes.
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Central African Shear Zone
The Central African Shear Zone (CASZ) (or Shear System) is a wrench fault system extending in an ENE direction from the Gulf of Guinea through Cameroon into Sudan.
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Cerro Tuzgle
Cerro Tuzgle is a dormant stratovolcano in the Susques Department of Jujuy Province in Argentina.
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Cima volcanic field
Cima volcanic field is a volcanic field in San Bernardino County, California, close to the border with Nevada.
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Circumstellar habitable zone
In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure.
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Cocos Plate
The Cocos Plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it.
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Colorado Plateau
The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.
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Continental arc
A continental arc is a type of volcanic arc occurring as an "arc-shape" topographic high region along a continental margin.
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Continental collision
Continental collision is a phenomenon of the plate tectonics of Earth that occurs at convergent boundaries.
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Crater Basalt volcanic field
Crater Basalt volcanic field is a volcanic field in Argentina in the Chubut province.
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Craton
A craton (or; from κράτος kratos "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, where the lithosphere consists of the Earth's two topmost layers, the crust and the uppermost mantle.
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Delamination (geology)
In geophysics, delamination refers to the loss and sinking (foundering) of the portion of the lowermost lithosphere from the tectonic plate to which it was attached.
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Denning (Martian crater)
Denning Crater is a large Noachian-age impact crater in the southwestern Terra Sabaea region of the southern Martian highlands, within the Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle.
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Depth of focus (tectonics)
In seismology, the depth of focus or focal depth refers to the depth at which an earthquake occurs.
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Divergent boundary
In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary (also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
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Donegal batholith
The Donegal batholith is a large granitic igneous intrusion of early Devonian age that outcrops in County Donegal in Ireland.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Earth Revealed: Introductory Geology
Earth Revealed: Introductory Geology, originally titled Earth Revealed, is a 26-part video instructional series covering the processes and properties of the physical Earth, with particular attention given to the scientific theories underlying geological principles.
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Earth science
Earth science or geoscience is a widely embraced term for the fields of natural science related to the planet Earth.
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Easter Microplate
Easter Plate is located to the west of Easter Island off the west coast of South America in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, bordering the Nazca plate to the east and the Pacific plate to the west.
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Eburnean orogeny
The Eburnean orogeny, or Eburnean cycle was a series of tectonic, metamorphic and plutonic events in what is now West Africa during the Paleoproterozoic era between about 2200–2000 million years ago.
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Eclogite
Eclogite is a mafic metamorphic rock.
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Flat slab subduction
Flat slab subduction is characterized by a low subduction angle (A slab refers to the subducting lower plate. Although, some would characterize flat slab subduction as any shallowly dipping lower plate as in western Mexico. Flat slab subduction is associated with the pinching out of the asthenosphere, an inland migration of arc magmatism (magmatic sweep), and an eventual cessation of arc magmatism. The coupling of the flat slab to the upper plate is thought to change the style of deformation occurring on the upper plate's surface and form basement-cored uplifts like the Rocky Mountains. The flat slab also may hydrate the lower continental lithosphere and be involved in the formation of economically important ore deposits. During the subduction, a flat slab itself may be deformed, or buckling, causing sedimentary hiatus in marine sediments on the slab. The failure of a flat slab is associated with ignimbritic volcanism and the reverse migration of arc volcanism. Multiple working hypotheses about the cause of flat slabs are subduction of thick, buoyant oceanic crust (15–20 km) and trench rollback accompanying a rapidly overriding upper plate and enhanced trench suction. The west coast of South America has two of the largest flat slab subduction zones. Flat slab subduction is occurring at 10% of subduction zones.
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Flatlander (short story)
"Flatlander" is an English language science fiction short story written in 1967 by Larry Niven.
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Galán
Cerro Galán is a caldera in Catamarca Province, Argentina, one of the largest exposed calderas in the world.
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Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón, other Spanish name: Las Islas Galápagos), part of the Republic of Ecuador, are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, west of continental Ecuador.
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Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Geology of the Iberian Peninsula
The geology of the Iberian Peninsula consists of the study of the rock formations on the Iberian Peninsula, which includes Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Gibraltar.
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Geology of Venus
Venus is a planet with striking geology.
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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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Glossary of geology
This page is a glossary of geology.
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Grenville orogeny
The Grenville orogeny was a long-lived Mesoproterozoic mountain-building event associated with the assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia.
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Guyot
A guyot (pronounced), also known as a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain (seamount), with a flat top over below the surface of the sea.
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Hollister Ridge
Hollister Ridge is a group of seamounts in the Pacific Ocean.
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Iceland plume
The Iceland plume is a postulated upwelling of anomalously hot rock in the Earth's mantle beneath Iceland.
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Imbabura Volcano
Imbabura is an inactive stratovolcano in northern Ecuador.
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Index of geology articles
This is a list of all articles related to geology that cannot be readily placed on the following subtopic pages.
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Infiernillo (volcanic group)
Infiernillo is a volcanic field in Argentina.
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Irruputuncu
Irruputuncu is a volcano in the commune of Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile, as well as San Pedro de Quemes Municipality, Nor Lípez Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia.
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Isostasy
Isostasy (Greek ''ísos'' "equal", ''stásis'' "standstill") is the state of gravitational equilibrium between Earth's crust and mantle such that the crust "floats" at an elevation that depends on its thickness and density.
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Isostatic depression
Isostatic depression is the sinking of large parts of the Earth's crust into the asthenosphere.
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Isua Greenstone Belt
The Isua Greenstone Belt is an Archean greenstone belt in southwestern Greenland.
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John Tuzo Wilson
John Tuzo Wilson, CC, OBE, FRS, FRSC, FRSE (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics.
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Kimberlite
Kimberlite is an igneous rock, which sometimes contains diamonds.
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Lachlan Fold Belt
The Lachlan Fold Belt (LFB) or Lachlan Orogen is a geological subdivision of the east part of Australia.
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Lamprophyre
Lamprophyres (Greek λαµπρός (lamprós).
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Laramide orogeny
The Laramide orogeny was a period of mountain building in western North America, which started in the Late Cretaceous, 70 to 80 million years ago, and ended 35 to 55 million years ago.
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Lehmann discontinuity
The Lehmann discontinuity is an abrupt increase of ''P''-wave and ''S''-wave velocities at the depth of 220±30 km, discovered by seismologist Inge Lehmann.
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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A
Category:Lists of words.
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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/S
Category:Lists of words.
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List of plate tectonics topics
This is a list of articles related to plate tectonics and tectonic plates.
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List of submarine topographical features
List of submarine topographical features, oceanic landforms and topographic elements.
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Lithosphere
A lithosphere (λίθος for "rocky", and σφαίρα for "sphere") is the rigid, outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet, or natural satellite, that is defined by its rigid mechanical properties.
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Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundary
The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundary (LAB) represents a mechanical difference between layers in Earth’s inner structure.
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Lithospheric flexure
The lithospheric flexure (also called regional isostasy) is the process by which the lithosphere (rigid outer layer of the Earth) bends under the action of forces such as the weight of a growing orogen or changes in ice thickness related to (de)glaciations.
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Louis Lliboutry
Louis Lliboutry (born on 19 February 1922 in Madrid; died on 21 October 2007 in Grenoble) was a French glaciologist, geophysicist, and mountaineer.
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Low-velocity zone
The low-velocity zone (LVZ) occurs close to the boundary between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere in the upper mantle.
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Magmatism
Magmatism is the emplacement of magma within and at the surface of the outer layers of a terrestrial planet, which solidifies as igneous rocks.
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Mantle (geology)
The mantle is a layer inside a terrestrial planet and some other rocky planetary bodies.
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Mantle convection
Mantle convection is the slow creeping motion of Earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior of the Earth to the surface.
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Mantle plume
A mantle plume is an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle, first proposed by J. Tuzo Wilson in 1963.
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Mesoplates
The term "mesoplates" has been applied in two different contexts within geology and geophysics.
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Mesosphere (mantle)
In geology, the mesosphere refers to the part of the Earth's mantle below the lithosphere and the asthenosphere, but above the outer core.
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.
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Mid-ocean ridge
A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is an underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics.
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Moctezuma volcanic field
Moctezuma volcanic field is a volcanic field in Sonora, Mexico.
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Mohorovičić discontinuity
The Mohorovičić discontinuity, usually referred to as the Moho, is the boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle.
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Mount Erciyes
Mount Erciyes (Erciyes Dağı), also known as Argaeus, is a volcano in Turkey.
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Mount Garibaldi
Mount Garibaldi is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Sea to Sky Country of British Columbia, north of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Nazca Ridge
The Nazca Ridge is a submarine ridge, located on the Nazca Plate off the west coast of South America.
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Nevado de Longaví
Nevado de Longaví is a volcano in the Andes of central Chile.
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Ngaoundere Plateau
The Ngaoundéré Plateau is a highland area in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon.
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North China Craton
The North China Craton is a continental crustal block with one of Earth's most complete and complex record of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic processes.
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Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
The Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province (NCVP), formerly known as the Stikine Volcanic Belt, is a geologic province defined by the occurrence of Miocene to Holocene volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
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Northern North Sea basin
The North Sea is part of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Europe.
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Nutation
Nutation (from Latin nūtātiō, "nodding, swaying") is a rocking, swaying, or nodding motion in the axis of rotation of a largely axially symmetric object, such as a gyroscope, planet, or bullet in flight, or as an intended behavior of a mechanism.
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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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Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean
The opening of the North Atlantic Ocean is a geological event that occurred over millions of years, during which the supercontinent Pangea broke up.
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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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Outer trench swell
The outer trench swell, outer trench high, or outer rise is a subtle ridge on the seafloor near an oceanic trench, where a descending plate begins to flex and fault in preparation for its descent into the mantle at a subduction zone.
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Outline of Earth sciences
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Earth science: Earth science – all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth.
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Paraná and Etendeka traps
The Paraná-Etendeka traps (or Paraná and Etendeka Plateau; or Paraná and Etendeka Province) comprise a large igneous province that includes both the main Paraná traps (in Paraná Basin, a South American geological basin) as well as the smaller severed portions of the flood basalts at the Etendeka traps (in northwest Namibia and southwest Angola).
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Parinacota (volcano)
Parinacota (in Hispanicized spelling), Parina Quta or Parinaquta is a dormant stratovolcano on the border of Chile and Bolivia.
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Passive margin
A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin.
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Past sea level
Global or eustatic sea level has fluctuated significantly over the Earth's history.
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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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Plating (geology)
In geology, plating is a hypothesized process whereby asthenospheric mantle hardens beneath crustal material, thereby becoming attached to it and thereafter moving together with the crustal material as part of the lithosphere.
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Pole shift hypothesis
The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis suggests that there have been geologically rapid shifts in the relative positions of the modern-day geographic locations of the poles and the axis of rotation of the Earth, creating calamities such as floods and tectonic events.
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Porphyry copper deposit
Porphyry copper deposits are copper orebodies that are formed from hydrothermal fluids that originate from a voluminous magma chamber several kilometers below the deposit itself.
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Potrillo volcanic field
The Potrillo volcanic field is a monogenetic volcanic field located on the Rio Grande Rift, in a portion of its rift valley, in southern New Mexico, United States and northern Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Puyuhuapi (volcanic group)
Puyuhuapi Volcanic Group is a volcanic group of cinder cones located at the head of Puyuhuapi Channel, in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of Chile.
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Qal'eh Hasan Ali
Qal'eh Hasan Ali is a maar-producing volcanic field located southeast of Kerman Province, Iran.
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Rare-earth element
A rare-earth element (REE) or rare-earth metal (REM), as defined by IUPAC, is one of a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium.
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Río Murta (volcano)
Río Murta is a volcano in Chile.
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Ridge push
Ridge push or sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down the hot, raised asthenosphere below mid-ocean ridges.
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Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
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Rio Grande rift
The Rio Grande Rift is a north-trending continental rift zone.
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River anticlines
A river anticline is a geologic structure that is formed by the focused uplift of rock caused by high erosion rates from large rivers relative to the surrounding areas.
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San Quintín Volcanic Field
The San Quintín Volcanic Field is a collection of ten or eleven volcanic cinder cones situated along the Pacific coast of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
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Scandinavian Mountains
The Scandinavian Mountains or the Scandes is a mountain range that runs through the Scandinavian Peninsula.
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Seafloor spreading
Seafloor spreading is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
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Sial
In geology, the term 'sial' refers to the composition of the upper layer of the Earth's crust, namely rocks rich in silicates and aluminium minerals.
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Siletzia
Siletzia is the massive formation of early to middle Eocene epoch marine basalts and interbedded sediments in the forearc of the Cascadia subduction zone; this forms the basement rock under western Oregon and Washington and the southern tip of Vancouver Island.
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Sillajhuay
Sillajhuay (also known as Sillajguay or Alto Toroni) is a volcano on the border between Bolivia and Chile.
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Slab detachment
In plate tectonics, slab detachment or slab break-off may occur during continent-continent or arc-continent collisions.
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Slab gap hypothesis
In geology, the slab gap hypothesis is one of the explanations put forward to explain several instances of crustal extension that occur inland near former subduction zones.
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Slab pull
Slab pull is the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction.
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Stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.
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Structure of the Earth
The interior structure of the Earth is layered in spherical shells: an outer silicate solid crust, a highly viscous asthenosphere and mantle, a liquid outer core that is much less viscous than the mantle, and a solid inner core.
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Subcontinental lithospheric mantle
The subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) is the uppermost solid part of Earth's mantle associated with the continental lithosphere.
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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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Submarine earthquake
A submarine, undersea, or underwater earthquake is an earthquake that occurs underwater at the bottom of a body of water, especially an ocean.
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Subsidence
Subsidence is the motion of a surface (usually, the earth's surface) as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea level.
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Tarava seamounts
The Tarava seamounts are a group of seamounts in the southern Pacific Ocean, southwest of the Society Islands.
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Taryatu-Chulutu
Taryatu-Chulutu (tariatyn chuluut, "rocks of Tariat") is a volcanic field in Mongolia.
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Tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains
The tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains appears to have begun when Antarctica broke away from Australia during the late Cretaceous and is ongoing, creating along the way some of the longest mountain ranges (at 3500 kilometers) formed by rift flank uplift and associated continental rifting.
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Tectonics
Tectonics is the process that controls the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
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Tectonophysics
Tectonophysics, a branch of geophysics, is the study of the physical processes that underlie tectonic deformation.
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Tengchong volcanic field
The Tengchong Volcanic Field (TVF) is a Cenozoic volcanic field located in the Southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau around 40 km from the Chinese border with Myanmar.
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Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (before 1954)
The evolution of tectonophysics is closely linked to the history of the continental drift and plate tectonics hypotheses.
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Tor Zawar
Tor Zawar is a fissure vent volcano in central Pakistan and the only recent volcano in Pakistan and South Asia.
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Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Eje Volcánico Transversal), also known as the Transvolcanic Belt and locally as the Sierra Nevada (Snowy Mountain Range), is a volcanic belt that covers central-southern Mexico.
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Tunkin Depression
Tunkin Depression is a volcanic field in Russia.
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Udokan Plateau
The Udokan Plateau is a volcanic field in Transbaikalia, Russia.
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Vilama (caldera)
Vilama is a Miocene caldera in Bolivia and Argentina.
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Viscosity
The viscosity of a fluid is the measure of its resistance to gradual deformation by shear stress or tensile stress.
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Volcanology of Mars
Volcanic activity, or volcanism, has played a significant role in the geologic evolution of Mars.
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Wadati–Benioff zone
A Wadati–Benioff zone (also Benioff–Wadati zone or Benioff zone or Benioff seismic zone) is a planar zone of seismicity corresponding with the down-going slab in a subduction zone.
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Waipiata
Waipiata is an historic place on the Otago Central Rail Trail, in Central Otago, New Zealand.
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Warren B. Hamilton
Warren B. Hamilton (born 13 May 1925 in Los Angeles) is an American geologist known for integrating observed geology and geophysics into planetary-scale syntheses describing the dynamic and petrologic evolution of Earth’s crust and mantle.
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Weizhou Island
Weizhou Island is a Chinese island in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field
The Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field, also called the Clearwater Cone Group, is a potentially active monogenetic volcanic field in east-central British Columbia, Canada, located approximately north of Kamloops.
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West African Craton
The West African Craton (WAC) is one of the five cratons of the Precambrian basement rock of Africa that make up the African Plate, the others being the Kalahari craton, Congo craton, Saharan Metacraton and Tanzania Craton.
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Witwatersrand
The Witwatersrand (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a, north-facing scarp in South Africa.
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Witwatersrand Basin
The Witwatersrand Basin is a largely underground geological formation which surfaces in the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthenosphere
