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What general term denotes a buried erosional surface where rock layers are missing?
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What is two sedimentary rock layers separated by an erosional surface?
Disconformity
What term describes an erosional surface bounded above by flat-lying sedimentary rocks and below by igneous or metamorphic rocks?
nonconformity
What denotes the exposed crescent-shaped rupture surface at the head of a slump?
Scarp
Which of these landforms was created by erosional forces?
A canyon is a landform that is created by erosional forces. Erosion, caused by wind or water, gradually wears away the Earth's surface, carving out deep valleys and creating steep cliffs. Canyons are often found in areas with flowing water, such as rivers or streams.
What is the type of unconformity in which an erosional surface exists in one of several horizontal layers?
Angular unconformity not diconformity for those of u who need help to the answers on ur science sheet
What term denotes a buried erosional surface where rock layers are missing?
unconformity
What is a place in the rock record where two rock units are separated by an erosional surface?
An Unconformity is an erosional or non-depositional surface that separates rocks of two different ages. This is represented by missing sediments in the stratigraphic column. If the time period represented by the missing sediments is small, the unconformity is called a diastem.
What is a buried erosional surface called?
a buried erosional surface is called unconformity.
What is erosional surface?
surface effected by erosion
What erosional agent accounts for most of the erosion on Earth's surface?
Moving water is the main erosional agent on the surface of the Earth.
What is two sedimentary rock layers separated by an erosional surface?
Disconformity
Which kind of uncomformity has an erosional surface between parallel strata?
disconformity
What are erosional plains?
Erosional plains are developments on the Earth's surface caused by natural weathering of glacier activity, wind movement or water (sea, river & stream) torrent and are subdivided on the basis of the type of erosional agent.
Which feature is represented between the green shale and the tan sandstone?
a buried erosional surface
Which erosional feature most likely formed on the surface of the bedrock under the glacial ice?
parralel grooves
An unconformity is a buried?
A surface between successive strata representing a missing interval in the geologic record of time, and produced either by an interruption in deposition or by the erosion of depositionally continuous strata followed by renewed deposition.
What term describes an erosional surface bounded above by flat-lying sedimentary rocks and below by igneous or metamorphic rocks?
nonconformity
