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⛏️Intro to Geology
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253 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Geology exam

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A

A Horizon
Acid Test
Angular unconformity
Appalachian Mountains
Asthenosphere
Asymmetrical Ripples

B

B horizon
Barchan Dunes
Basaltic magma
Beach nourishment
Bed load
Benioff Zones
Biotite
Body-centered cubic

C

Carbonic acid
Charles Lyell
Chemostratigraphy
Chondritic Meteorites
Chronostratigraphy
Cliff
Columbia River Basalt Province
Continental crust
Continental drift
Continental environments
Continental glacier
Continental shelf
Crescentic dunes
Cross-bedding
Cross-cutting relationships
Cross-stratification
Crystal Growth
Cubic System

D

Dana Classification
Darcy's Law
Deep-marine facies association
Deep-sea plain
Deltas
Depositional features
Desert pavement
Desiccation cracks
Detrital sediments
Dissolved load

E

East Pacific Rise
Eclogite facies
Ecosystem degradation
End-cretaceous mass extinction
Erosional features

F

Facies associations
Fault dip
Fault line
Fault rupture
Felsic magma
Fibrous Habit
Field mapping
Fissure Eruption
Flute casts
Fluvial facies association
Fold Mountain
Foliated metamorphic rocks
Formation of the Earth
Fossil assemblage
Frost wedging

G

Geological Structures
Geomorphology
Geothermal gradient
Glacial deposition
Glacial erosion
Glacial erratics
Glacial outwash
Glacial retreat
Glacial Striations
Glacial till
Glaciation
Gneissic banding
Gps surveying