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plate techtonics
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10th Grade
05/05/2008

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continental  
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continetnal
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RIFT or RIFT VALLEYS 
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Gaps in the crust are produced and large slabs of rock slide and sink down into the gaps
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oceanic....
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oceanic oceanic
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oceanic...
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continental
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transform fault  
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sliding horizontally
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paleomagnetism  
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perserved record of the changes in earths magnetism over geologic time
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continetal shelf
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sloping platform between shoreline and steep slope of ocean floor
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palioclimate means...
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ancient climate
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seafloor spreading
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constantly renewed seafloor, convection cells in mantle
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plate tectonics states  
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earth's outer shell, the lithosphere, is divided into eight large plates and a number of smaller ones
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3 types of plate boundaries
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divergent, convergent, and transform fault
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alfred wedegner
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pangaea, contintental shelf
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