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Geomorphology Flashcards

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List the five types of horizontal strata

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Canyons
Plateau
Mesa
Butte
Conical hill

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What do we call a flat top table land

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A mesa

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What do we call a small flat-topped hill

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A butte

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What do we call large areas with steep-sided valleys

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Canyons

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What do you call flat areas elevated above sea level

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Plateau

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What do we call a steep slope

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A scarp

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What is a scarp retreat

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Change in position of a scarp due to erosion.
Mesa>butte>conical Hill

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Differentiate between a slope decline and slope retreat

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Slope decline is simply the flattening of a slope over time while the slope retreat is the angle of the slope remaining constant over time nothing changes

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List the four types of inclined strata

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Cuesta
Hogsback
Cuesta basin
Cuesta dome

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Which two characteristics are inclined strata defined by

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The dip slope and the scarp slope

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Which inclined strata has a gentle dip slope and a steep slope slope

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Cuesta

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Which inclined structure has volcanic batholiths or laccoliths intruding outwards

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Cuesta dome

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Which inclined structure has volcanic intrusions of lopoliths inwardw

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Cuesta basin

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Which inclined structure has a dip and scarp slope equally steep forming a ridge

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Hogsback

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List five types of igneous strata

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Batholiths
Laccoliths
Lopoliths
Dykes
Sills

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What is strata

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Sedimentary rock layer

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Batholiths:

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Large intrusive landforming deepest below the surface

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Laccoliths:

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Intrusive landform shaped like mushrooms (dome) between layers of layers of sedimentary rocks

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Lopoliths

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Intrusive landform that is saucer (basin) shaped

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Dykes

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Vertical intrusions

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Sills

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Horizontal intrusions

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Tors

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Isolated exposed pile of rocks

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Igneous rock

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Exist when magma cools below or above Earth’s surface

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