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Below you will find key words and concepts that you should remember from this chapter.
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| accreted terrane | Terrane that did not form at its present site on a continent. (See page(s) 128) |
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| accumulation stage | Stage in the evolution of major mountain belts characterized by the accumulation of great thicknesses (several kilometers) of sedimentary or volcanic rocks. (See page(s) 119) |
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| craton | Portion of a continent that has been structurally stable for a prolonged period of time. (See page(s) 115) |
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| fault-block mountain range | A range created by uplift along normal or vertical faults. (See page(s) 123) |
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| fold and thrust belts | A portion of a major mountain belt characterized by large thrust faults, stacked one upon another. Layered rock between the faults was folded when faulting was taking place. (See page(s) 118) |
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| lithospheric delamination (or delamination) | The detachment of part of the mantle portion of the lithosphere beneath a mountain belt. (See page(s) 125) |
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| major mountain belt | A long chain (thousands of kilometers) of mountain ranges. (See page(s) 112) |
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| mountain range | A group of closely spaced mountains or parallel ridges. (See page(s) 112) |
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| orogeny | An episode of intense deformation of the rocks in a region, generally accompanied by metamorphism and plutonic activity. (See page(s) 120) |
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| Precambrian shield | A complex of old Precambrian metamorphic and plutonic rocks exposed over a large area. (See page(s) 116) |
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| suspect terrane | A terrane that may not have formed at its present site. (See page(s) 128) |
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| terrane (tectonostratigraphic terrane) | A region in which the geology is markedly different from that in adjoining regions. (See page(s) 128) |
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| gravitational collapse and spreading | term used to describe a hypothetical process during mountain building at convergent plate boundries to account for observed folding and thrust faulting simultaneously with block faulting. (See page(s) 120) |