Geography 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Continental Crust, Igneous Rock, Plate Tectonics
3 Jun 2015
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Shear: horizontal surfaces sliding past each other. Compression: squishes material into a smaller volume. Tension: stretches material out; opposite of compression. Landform: any natural (rock) formation on earth. Structure: the materials that make up a landform and how they are arranged. Ex. material = granite; arrangement = horizontal layers. Phenomena (forces) that shape the structure into the landforms. Two main types: endogenous processes and exogenous processes (see below) Processes continuously shape the structure and change the landform it is a continuous progression. Stages document these sequential changes (the amount of work done) Ex. initial stage vs. mature stage of a river. Related to time but does not correspond exactly to it (different stages take different lengths of time to pass through) Landform region = a region based on commonality of landform types. Processes that occur at/above the earth"s surface that wear away and smooth (denudation) a structure.
