Cards in this guide (17)
According to the principle of cross-cutting relationships an intrusive rock body is
Younger than the rock it intrudes into
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
Radiometric dating is possible because the rates of decay of radioactive isotopes
The collision and joining of crustal fragments to a continent
mamga <-Lies get out.
Accretion is the correct awnser.
Folding is usually the result of what type of stress
What is the Long narrow area that has dropped between two faults
The major forces that form folded mountains are
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 lens-shaped intrusive igneous mass that forms close to Earth's surface
I believe it's laccolith - NovaNet
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
At a continent-continent convergence
folded mountains are produced