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Tectonic Processes Flashcards

1
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What is compression?

A

Bending of rocks until they fracture and move suddenly long fault lines

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What is compression most obvious?

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At convergent plate boundaries and subduction zones

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3
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Where is an example of compression?

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Kashmir 2005

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4
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What kind of earthquakes occur from compression force?

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High magnitude earthquakes

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What is tension?

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Stretches the crust leading to faulting and rifting

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What is rifting?

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Blocks of crust slip Downwards

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What kind of earthquakes does the movement of rifting with tension force cause?

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Shallow earthquakes

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8
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What plate boundaries is tension associated with?

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Divergent

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What is shearing?

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Strike slip fault

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10
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What plate boundaries is shearing most commonly at?

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Divergent

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What kind of earthquake does a strike slip fault and shearing cause?

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Movement is erratic and sudden and produces violent quakes

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12
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What were the tectonic processes in Haiti?

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Conservative plate boundary of the North American and Caribbean plates
Strike slip fault and compression

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What were the tectonics of the Kashmir earthquake?

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Indo-Australian and Eurasian continent collision

Forming fold mountains (Himalayas)

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14
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What are the three tectonic forces?

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Compression
Tension
Shearing

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15
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What are the three different types of faults?

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Normal dip-slip fault
Reverse dip-slip fault
Strike slip fault

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16
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What is a dip-slip fault?

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Fault plane dips away from the uplifting block

Faulting results from tension in the crustal rocks

17
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What is a reverse dip-slip fault?

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The fault plans dips beneath the uplifted block

18
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What is a very low angled reverse dipslio fault called?

A

A thrust fault

19
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What does the faulting in a normal dip slip fault result from?

A

Tension in the crustal rocks

20
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What does faulting In the reverse dip slip fault result from?

A

Compression in the crust

21
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What is a strike slip fault?

A

Blocks slide past each other

22
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What are the four main types of plate boundary?

A

Divergent
Convergent
Conservative
Collision

23
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What is happening at a divergent plate boundary?

A

Moving apart - mid ocean ridges

24
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What is happening at a convergent plate boundary?

A

2 plates colliDe

Where there is an oceanic and a continental there is a subduction zone (forms a deep trench)

25
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What is happening at a collision?

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Continent vs continent

Sediment between them get trapped and fold

26
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What is happening at a conservative boundary?

A

Two plates move past with no formation or destruction of crust
Intensive earthquake activity

Earthquakes (3 decks)

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