EARTH 119 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Delamination, Epeirogenic Movement, Global Positioning System

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Earth 119- chapter 11: crags, cracks, and crumples: crustal deformation and mountain. Uplift: vertical elevation of the earth"s surface in response to natural causes. Deformation: a change in the shape, position, or orientation of a material, by bending, breaking, flowing. Faults: a fracture on which one body of rock slides past another. Folds: a bend or wrinkle of rock layers or foliation; folds form as a consequence of ductile deformation. Foliation: layering formed as a consequence of the alignment of mineral grains, or of compositional banding in a metamorphic rock. Strain: the change in shape of an object in response to deformation (i. e. , as a result of the application of a stress) Brittle deformation: the cracking and fracturing of a material subjected to stress. Ductile deformation: the bending and flowing of a material (without cracking and breaking) subjected to stress.

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