Crust - Law Dictionary Search Results
massif
A block of the earths crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range
Pandowdy
pie or pudding made of baked apples or of sliced bread and apples baked together with no bottom crust
Moho
The boundary between the earths crust and the semiliquid mantle beneath It varies in depth from 3 miles beneath the surface at certain points
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Geosynclinal
the downward bend or subsidence of the earths crust which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment and hence forms the first step in the making of
Plutonism
The theory early advanced in geology that the successive rocks of the earths crust were formed by igneous fusion opposed to the Neptunian theory
VerbarRupia
vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous purulent or bloody fluid which dries up forming a blackish crust
Shellac
Lac which has been reduced to a thin crust See the Note under 2d Lac
Silicon
in this form or as silicates it is next to oxygen the most abundant element of the earths crust Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom as carbon is of the organic world Symbol Si
Iron
Iron, is the most useful of the metallic elements and the second most abundant in the earth's crust, after aluminium. In its elemental form or as steel, iron has supplied civilization with most of its tools
plate tectonics
A geological theory which holds that the crust of the earth the lithosphere is divided into a small number of large separate plates which float and
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