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Air with a lapse rate less than the wet adiabatic rate.

The angle of the Sun above the horizon.

A solitary sand dune shaped like a crescent with its tips pointing downward.

A form of condensation best described as a dense concentration of suspended water droplets or tiny ice crystals.

See Anemometer.

A type of solid state flow that produces a change in the size and shape of a rock body without fracturing. Occurs at depths where temperatures and confining pressures are high.

The largest time unit on the geologic time scale, next in order of magnitude above era.

That portion of the shore lying between the normal high and low water marks; the intertidal zone.

A submerged flat-topped seamount.

A tilted fault block in which the higher side is associated with mountainous topography and the lower side is a basin that fills with sediment.

The distance light travels in a year; about 6 trillion miles.

The angle between the planes of Earth’s equator and orbit.

An igneous texture consisting of large crystals embedded in a matrix of much smaller crystals.

A soil classification system consisting of six hierarchical categories based on observable soil characteristics. The system recognizes 12 soil orders.

A fault along which the movement is horizontal.

Structures that are deposited by algae and consist of layered mounds of calcium carbonate.

The condition of water droplets that remain in the liquid state at temperatures well below 0° C.

A boundary in which two plates slide past one another without creating or destroying lithosphere.

A chain of volcanic islands generally located a few hundred kilometers from a trench where active subduction of one oceanic slab beneath another is occurring.

The vertical distance between the trough and crest of a wave.