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Cracks in rocks of the crust are known broadly as discontinuities. If there is relative movement of the rocks on the two sides of the crack, then it is known as a fault. If there is not then it is known as a joint.
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∙ 13y agoA crack in the Earth's crust is called a fault line or rift.
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∙ 9y agoA Fracture or Fault
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∙ 13y agofracture
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∙ 15y agoFissure
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∙ 11y agofaults
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What is crustal material called?
rock
What is a giant crack in a rock called?
Fault
What has less density--the crustal rocks or the mantle rocks?
Crustal rock is normally less dense than mantle rock.
What is most likely to make a rock crack and crumble?
stressWater freezing in a crack in a rock
Crustal rock is uplifted by the intrusion of an igneous mass?
a dome mountain is formed
What is crustal material called?
rock
What is a crack in the rock at a plate boundary called?
If there is movement of rock along this crack, then it is called a fault.
What are skarns?
Molton rock moves through crustal carbonate rock, it heats the rock, liberating water from the crustal rock.
What is a giant crack in a rock called?
Fault
What has less density--the crustal rocks or the mantle rocks?
Crustal rock is normally less dense than mantle rock.
What is magma that hardens after being forced into a crack across rock?
Magma that hardens after being forced into a crack across rock is called a dike.
What is a skarns?
Molten rock that moves throgh crustal carbonate rock, That is heat the rock. Hot water as a form of steam or superheated fluid reats with crustal rock and other igneous material.
When a glacier melts and there is no longer a heavy burden of ice on the crustal rock the land will rise this is called?
Isostatic rebound.
Why are dykes important?
Dykes or Dike is a sheet of rock that forms in a crack of another rock. Then this crack begins to layers it is called a sill and will become crystallized.
Do plates and crustal plates differ?
Plates and Crustal plates are not different it can also be called as Crustal rocks
When rocks crack in sections parallel to the surface of the rock it is called .?
Exfoliation
When rocks crack in the section parallel to the surface of the rock it is called?
Exfoliation
