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The creta in cretaceous comes from the latin for this substance picked up by some blackboard erasers
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25
Things described as fluvial have to do with these geographic features
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193
This rock is basically froth formed from liquid lava
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262
3 minerals on the mohs scale can be scratched with a copper penny: calcite gypsum & this
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442
It's a soil consisting of sand clay & silt in nearly equal proportions
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550
This molten volcanic rock was given its name by those who lived around mount vesuvius
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556
At midocean ridges a new seafloor is being created by outpourings of this dark volcanic rock
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571
It's a loose mixture of particles larger than sand that you might find in your driveway
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593
This mineral is used in making plaster of paris & portland cement
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676
Often improperly called tidal waves these seem to occur after earthquakes over 6.5
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756
These large masses of flowing ice occur where winter snowfall exceeds summer melt
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759
It's term for a plate pulling apart; a great valley in africa has been formed by & named for it
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763
This molten rock material beneath the earth's surface is the source of igneous rocks
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956
If an igneous rock did this fast a fine texture resulted; if it did it really fast a glass formed
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1215
These are formed from glaciers by a process called calving
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1236
Soil contains particles of sand silt clay & organic particles called this
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1463
From the greek kryos ice it's the shape a mineral grows into when unrestricted
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1470
The one near the mariana islands is the deepest of these long narrow submarine depressions
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1546
The word electricity comes from the greek word for this fossilized pine resin
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1711
It's the epoch that we inhabit on the geologic time scale
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1756
Chalk is limestone made largely of the remains of these simple animals including foraminifera
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1785
The cenozoic era is called the age of this class of animals since they became prominent then
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1838
Speleology is the study of these
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1892
These long sea inlets found in norway develop by glaciation of a previous river system
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2109
Of the 3 main groups of rocks this one is formed directly from magma
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2239
The oldest & largest division of geological time is the pre-this
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2499
The mineral nephrite is one of the 2 types of this oriental gemstone
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2577