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According to the principle of cross-cutting relationships an intrusive rock body is

Younger than the rock it intrudes into

What are eras divided into

The constituent time segments are epochs and periods, which are further divided into ages.

The youngest rocks are found near the center of

a downwarping known as a basin

What do you call mountains formed by blocks of crust moving along a fault

fault-block mountains

Radiometric dating is possible because the rates of decay of radioactive isotopes

Are constant

Folding is usually the result of what type of stress

compressional forces

What is the Long narrow area that has dropped between two faults

graben

What is the name of the doctrine that states the physical chemical and biological laws that operate today have also operated in the geologic past

Uniformitarianism

The major forces that form folded mountains are

Compressional Stresses

Which type of geologic event has to occur to create an angular unconformity

The folding or tilting of rocks, followed by renewed deposition, has to occur to create an angular unconformity.

What is a sentence for fault block mountain

Fault block mountain can be high.

Which item could be dated using radiocarbon dating

A 60,000 year old mammoth bone.

Which is a true statement about the process of accretion

It enlarges continental landmasses and forms mountains along the edges of continents.

Which feature can be produced at an ocean-continental convergence

continental volcanic arc. :)

What type of mountain ranges form at convergent plate boundaries

Folded and volcanic mountains

Ocean convergence produces what

Ocean convergence with continental plates result in subduction zone. Oceanic with oceanic plates convergence forms volcanic mountain.

A downwarped structure with a circular shape is a

basin

What is the continental crust like in young mountainous regions

thicker

At a continent-continent convergence

folded mountains are produced

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