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Fossils of non-swimming animals found on separate continents indicate land connection.
Oceanic crust is thinner, younger, and denser than continental crust.
Heat from radioactive decay causes magma to rise and create movement.
Magma fills fissures, creating new oceanic crust without forming a topographic high.
The force exerted by a sinking plate that pulls the rest of the plate down.
Two continental plates collide, causing intense compression and folding.
It is a zone of earthquakes associated with subduction zones.
Water freezes in rock cracks, expands, and breaks the rock apart.
Acidic water breaks down feldspar in rocks, forming kaolin.
Roots produce organic acids that enhance chemical weathering.
Excavation and vegetation removal increase the likelihood of slope failure.
The process of creating new oceanic crust at divergent boundaries.
Plates slide past each other, causing earthquakes without creating or destroying crust.
Chemical weathering rate increases 2-3 times for every 10°C rise in temperature.
Faster flows of saturated soil, occurring on shallower slopes.
Steeper slopes (>40°) are more prone to rockfalls and slides.