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Glossary
1.1
Doppler Effect
1.2
Red Shift
1.3
Solar System Formation
2.1
WegenerContinental Drift
2.2
Bullard Fit of Continents
2.3
Magnetic Reversals
2.4
Wandering Poles or Drifting Continents?
2.5
Sea Floor Spreading
2.6
Basic Plate Boundaries
2.7
Formation of Ocean Crust
2.8
Transform Faulting
2.9
The Process of Subduction
2.10
Hot Spot Volcanoes
2.11
The Process of Rifting
3.1
Mineral Growth
3.2
Crystallization
5.1
Formation of Cross Beds
5.2
Transgression and Regression
8.1
Types of Faults
8.2
Seismic Wave Motion
8.3
How a Seismograph Works
9.1
Process of Folding
10.1
Geologic History
10.2
Types of Unconformity
12.1
Oil Formation and Trapping
14.1
Evolution of a Meandering Stream
15.1
Tides
18.1
Glacial Advance and Retreat
18.2
Milankovitch Cycles
19.1
Snowball Earth
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