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- Continental shelf (2503 bytes)
3: ...crust|oceanic plate]] dives beneath [[continental crust]] in an offshore [[subduction zone]] such as off ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
112: ... [[dance]], and [[etiquette]]. This social upper crust built its [[mansion]]s in the [[Georgian architec... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
30: ...hquakes occur because the strength of the Earth's crust can be modified by fluid pressure. Finally, eart... - Geologic fault (2738 bytes)
1: ... are the result of differential motion within the crust. Faults are the source of many [[earthquakes]] th...
8: A normal fault occurs when the crust is in tension. The hanging wall moves downwards r...
10: ... compressional forces and shortening of the local crust. The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep,... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
12: ...n area of oceanic crust covered by water. Oceanic crust is the thin layer of solidified volcanic [[basalt...
40: *[[crustacean]]s such as [[lobster]]s and [[shrimp]]
55: ... mix of ice and hydrocarbons that forms its outer crust. - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
12: ...ter. Such large vertical movements of the earth's crust can occur at [[plate boundaries]]. [[Subduction]]... - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
25: ...re) is of course thousands of miles beneath its [[crust]]. However, one could perhaps consider the inter... - Earth's atmosphere (10093 bytes)
76: ...and [[hydrogen]]; [[heat]] (from the still molten crust, and the sun) dissipated this atmosphere.
78: ...rs ago, the surface had cooled enough to form a [[crust]], still heavily populated with [[volcano]]es whi... - Lung cancer (15648 bytes)
70: ...uranium]], found in the earth's [[Crust (geology)|crust]]. Radon exposure is the second major cause of lu... - Hot spring (7271 bytes)
7: ...nt]]. If water percolates deeply enough into the crust, it will be heated as it comes into contact with ... - Yellowstone National Park (23738 bytes)
74: ...ary volcanic [[hot spot]] beneath the [[Earth]]'s crust. This hot spot used to be near what is now [[Boi... - Mid-Atlantic Ridge (3017 bytes)
13: ...ill in the spaces. Heat from the magma causes the crust on either side of the rifts to expand, forming th...
15: ...es in the [[asthenosphere]] pushing the [[oceanic crust]] and [[lithosphere]]. - Magma (871 bytes)
1: ...many separate magma chambers within the Earth's [[crust]], and will have slightly different compositions ... - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
5: ...ine of [[volcano]]es. Later the [[Crust (geology)|crust]] started to pull apart, creating the [[Basin and...
87: ...[plate tectonics|tectonic]] deformation where the crust has been reshapped. Two periods of [[glaciation]]...
93: ...dence of the region occurred as the [[continental crust]] thinned and the newly-formed Pacific widened, f...
100: ...] (place where heavier crust slides below lighter crust; see just above the top half of the [[:image:Geol...
107: [[Basin and Range]]-associated stretching of the crust started around 16 million years ago and had sprea... - Subduction (7616 bytes)
1: ...rent planet. Without subduction zones, Earth's [[crust]] would not have differentiated into continents a...
5: ...which result in extreme thickening of the oceanic crust, can cause some sections of older oceanic lithosp...
7: ...y restricted to the shallow, brittle parts of the crust, generally at depths of less than 20 km. However,...
9: ...al letters are collision zones, where continental crust has entered and disrupted a subduction zone]]
13: ...s volcanic arc location to depth of the subducted crust as defined by the Wadati-Benioff zone. Studies o... - Sedimentary rock (7917 bytes)
10: ...uences we see represent only a thin veneer over a crust consisting mainly of igneous and metamorphic rock... - Rift (geology) (1656 bytes)
3: ... created by [[seafloor spreading]]. In rifts, no crust or lithosphere is produced. If rifting coninues... - Rock (geology) (2168 bytes)
6: ... cools and crystallises slowly within the Earth's crust, while ''[[Volcanic rock|Volcanic rocks]]'' resul...
12: The [[Earth]]'s crust (including the [[lithosphere]]), and the [[Earth'... - Metamorphic rock (7141 bytes)
3: ...a large part of the [[Earth]]'s [[Crust (geology)|crust]] and are classified by texture and by chemical a...
5: ...res that occur at great depths within the Earth's crust. - Moon (37975 bytes)
112: ! bgcolor="#ffc0c0" colspan="2" | [[Crust]] composition
284: ...proposed that the Moon broke off from the Earth's crust due to [[centrifugal force]], leaving an ocean ba...
297: ...ng the story of the volcanic history of the lunar crust and chronicling the frequency of impacts by [[com...
299: The lunar crust is composed of a variety of primary elements, inc...
311: ...re unevenly distributed over the entire Moon. The crust ranges from 60 km (38 miles) on the near side to ...
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