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lithospheric plates

March 12, 2018 by eclites

Regional pieces (“plates”) of the rigid outermost layer of the Earth (about 40 to 280 km thick, and generally thousands of kilometers across), consisting of the crust and outermost mantle.

layers

September 11, 2017 by ldwhite3

Sheets of rock and/or sediment deposited approximately horizontally.

laminations

September 11, 2017 by ldwhite3

In geology, thin (less than 1 cm) layers of sediment produced usually by brief or periodic depositional events.

landscape

September 6, 2017 by ldwhite3

Visible features such as hills, valleys, or streams that appear on the Earth’s surface.

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