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3-1 crustal deformation Unit 3: Dynamic Earth
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Vocabulary Anticline: Fracture: Deformation: Fault: Syncline
Tectonic Plates: Anticline: upward fold Fracture: break in a rock Deformation: change in rock due to stress Fault: a break in the earth's crust along which blocks of the crust slide relative to one another Syncline; downward fold Tectonic Plates: a giant mass of solid rock that makes up the outermost part of the earth.
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Original Horizontality
Sedimentary rock and some extrusive igneous rocks, such as lava flows, form in horizontal layers parallel to Earth's surface.
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strata These layers are called strata.
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Crustal Movement Rocks found in other positions are thought to have been deformed by crustal movement. Some of the types of deformed layers are Folded Tilted faulted.
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Deformation Folded rock layers are bent or curved.
Tilted rock layers are slanted or tipped.
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Faults Faulted rock layers are offset or displaced along a type of
crack called a fault.
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Faulting A fault is a crack in a mass of rock along which there has been displacement, shifting, or movement of the rock layers on each side of the crack.
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