Tectonic Plates

4. occurs when two plates collide at a convergent boundary, and one plate is driven beneath the other, back into the Earth's interior
8. occurs when tectonic processes put stress on a rock, and the rock bends, instead of breaking.
11. Steno A Danish scientist who studied the relative positions of sedimentary rocks.
12. that separate igneous or metamorphic rocks from overlying sedimentary rocks.
13. dating a method of arranging geological events based on the rock sequence.
14. a layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground.
16. are those where an older package of sediments has been tilted
17. has a short half-life only 5,730 years.
18. shift is the movement of the plates that make up Earth crust
19. dating a method used to determine the age of rocks by measuring its radioactive decay

1. refer to faults that are formed by shearing as transfirm faults in the ocean
2. age of rocks are determined by?
3. Slide past each other
4. rocks are the most common rocks exposed on Earth's surface
5. slight changes in particle size or composition result in the formation of layers, also called?
6. a gap in the sequence of rock layers is called an
7. tectonics is the scientific theory explaining the movement of the earth’s crust
9. folds shaped like an arch
10. when two continental plates are shoved together
15. is the process that turns sediment into rock.