Event process vocabulary guide
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GEOLOGIC PROCESS
| bolide impact | cometary impact | ||
| meteorite impact | |||
| deep water oxygen depletion | |||
| deformation | ductile flow | deformation twinning | |
| diffusion creep | |||
| dissolution creep | |||
| faulting | |||
| folding | |||
| fracturing | microfracturing | ||
| shearing | |||
| diagenetic process | |||
| extinction | |||
| geomagnetic process | magnetic field reversal | ||
| polar wander | |||
| human activity | excavation | ||
| grading | |||
| material transport and deposition | |||
| magmatic process | eruption | effusive eruption | |
| hawaiian eruption | |||
| pyroclastic eruption | plinian eruption | ||
| vulcanian eruption | |||
| strombolian eruption | |||
| intrusion | |||
| magmatic crystallisation | |||
| melting | partial melting | ||
| metamorphic process | alteration | ||
| chemical precipitation | |||
| contact metamorphism | |||
| dislocation metamorphism | |||
| sea level change | sea level fall | ||
| sea level rise | |||
| sedimentary process | deposition | biological precipitation | |
| chemical precipitation | |||
| mechanical deposition | debris flow deposition | ||
| mass wasting deposition | |||
| traction saltation or suspension deposition | |||
| turbidity current deposition | |||
| organic accumulation | |||
| erosion | ice erosion | ||
| mass wasting | |||
| water erosion | |||
| wind erosion | |||
| speciation | |||
| tectonic process | accretion | ||
| continental breakup | rifting | ||
| continental collision | |||
| obduction | |||
| orogenic process | |||
| spreading | |||
| subduction | |||
| transform faulting | |||
| weathering | biological weathering | ||
| chemical weathering | dissolution | ||
| hydration | |||
| hydrolysis | |||
| oxidation | |||
| physical weathering | frost shattering | ||
| haloclasty | |||
| pressure release weathering | |||
| thermal shock weathering |