Chapter 8

Geological Time Scale

Relative Time

Superposition

Epoch

James Hutton

Charles Lyell

Discontinuity

Continental

Oceanic Crust

Rock Cycle

Stratigraphy

Plate Tectonics

Pangaea

Abraham Ortelius

Alfred Wegener

Sea-floor spreading

Mid-ocean ridges

Convergent Plate Boundary

Divergent Plate Boundary

Transform Fault

Convergent Boundaries

Transform Boundaries

Ring of Fire

Hot Spots

Pluton

Laccolith

Basalt

Sedimentary Rocks

Regional Metamorphism