- Subduction: the process that takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the mantle as the plates converge
- Orogeny: forces and events leading to a large structural deformation of the Earth’s lithosphere due to the engagement of tectonic plates.
- Metamorphism: the change of minerals or geologic texture in pre-existing rocks without prolithic melting into liquid magma.
- Seismic: of relating to earthquakes or other vibration of the earth and the crust
- Deformation: a change in the shape or the dimensions of the body, resulting from stress, strain.
- Basin: a natural depression on the Earth’s surface, usually containing water
- Stratigraphy: the branch of study which studies rock layers and layering
- Terrane: a fault bounded or region with a distinct stratigraphy
- Cretateous: of, relating to, or denoting the last period of the Mesozoic era, between the Jurassic and Tertiary periods.
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