Relative Age Terms
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Fault
A break or crack
Intrusion
Hot magma seeps up through rock layers, cools and hardened forming new igneous rock
Uplift
Rock is lifted up out of water
Deposition
Is the laying down or dropping of sediment carried by wind, water, and ice
Folding
Rock is being compressed so sedimentary layers are bent or curved.
Erosion
Rocks and sediment are picked up and moved to another place
Subsidence
Sinking of the Earths surface underwater
Weathering
The wesring away of rocks