Aim: Small Scale Crustal Changes

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Aim Small Scale Crustal Changes
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Define the following terms

• Lithosphere
• Rock Strata
• Original Horizontality
• Folded Rock
• Faulted Rock
• Uplift

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Lithosphere

• Layer of rock forming the solid outer shell of
  the earth
• Crust is the upper portion of the lithosphere
• continental ? granite ? less dense
• oceanic ? basalt ? more dense

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Original Horizontality

• Rock forms in horizontal layers, parallel to the
  earths surface

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Which layer was deposited first?
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Folded Rock Strata
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Folds
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Faults
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Tilting
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Which is the youngest layer?
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Uplifted Bedrock Oxbow Lake
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Uplift
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