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1. weathering - page 278 Pictures 2 The Theory of Plate Tectonics - page 202 3. magma - pages 98, 252 4. silt - page 289 5. flood plain - page 314 6. sediment - page 316 7. subduction - pages 263 8. evaporation - page 379 9. erosion - pages 91, 295 10. glacier - page 352 11. avalanche - a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside 12. lava - pages - 101, 253 13. crystallize **-** All igneous rocks start out as melted rock, (magma) and then crystallize, or freeze. 14. igneous rock - page 98 15. extrusive igneous rock - page 101 16. intrusive igneous rock - page 100 17. metamorphic rock - page 106 18. sedimentary rock - page 102 19. uplift - page 91 20. deposition - page 91 21. lithification - Deposits of sediments undergo the process of //**lithification**//, or rock formation, to become sedimentary rocks. The process of **//lithification//** involves compaction (due to burial), cementation (the precipitation of chemical cements which bind the grains together), and recrystallization (the reforming of mineral crystals under low amounts of heat and pressure). 22. composition - page 95 23. texture - page 96 24. chemical sedimentary rock - page 103 25. clastic sedimentary rock - page 103 26. foliated - page 109 27. nonfoliated - page 110 28. deformation - page 111

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