Concept that Sedimentary layers and lava flows are deposited as horizontal, flat sheets when undisturbed

A long narrow steep sided depression or slope in the earth's oceanic crust. Usually lying above a subduction zone.

When two plates collide by sliding past each other.

A large wave produced by an earthquake on the ocean floor.

Land has been raised to a new relative position. Reason why fossils are found hundreds or thousands of feet above sea level.

A mountain composed of extrusive igneous rocks or a weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface.

Mountains that are presently rising because they are at the location of converging plates or at the site of a hot spot.

Sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection currents.

Giving off of gases, lava, and/or lava rock onto Earth's surface or into the atmosphere through the opening or vent of the volcano.

Process when two plates converge or collide, the denser of the two plates under the other plate.

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