Instructions: Identify the Following

question 118

Short Answer

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Seventeenth Amendment

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Definitions:

Accretionary Prism

A wedge-shaped mass of sediment and rock scraped off the top of a downgoing tectonic plate and accreted onto the overriding plate at a convergent plate boundary.

Fold and Thrust Belt

A region in the earth's crust where the rocks have been deformed by horizontal compression, leading to the formation of folds and thrust faults.

Anticlines

Upwardly convex folds in rock layers, typically formed through compression within the Earth's crust.

Synclines

Downward-curving folds in sedimentary strata, opposite of anticlines, which can also be indicators of oil and gas deposits.