A | B |
lithosphere | crust/solid upper mantle |
mantle | layer |
strike | dip formed straight line |
drift | what continents appear to do |
graben | sunken area between faults |
core | earth's innermost layer |
orogeny | mountain building process |
fault | moving fracture |
anticline | upward fold |
wegener | continental drift author |
shear | scissors-like force on plates |
horst | blocks moving upward relative to graben |
lateral | shear caused fault |
asthenosphere | plastic -like mantle area |
fold | force caused bent formation |
normal | tension caused fault |
reverse | thrust fault |
crust | top earth layer |
gutenberg | mantle/core boundary |
moho | crust/mantle bondary |
joint | nonmoving fracture |
syncline | downwrd fold |
convection | circulating heat cells |
mesosphere | lower mantle |
dip | tilted layer direction and angle |