{"id":59,"date":"2015-04-03T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T01:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2015-04-03T18:11:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T01:11:45","slug":"glossary-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/glossary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Subduction: the process that takes place at convergent boundaries\u00a0by which one tectonic plate\u00a0moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the mantle as the plates converge<\/li>\n<li>Orogeny: forces and events leading to a large structural deformation of the Earth\u2019s lithosphere due to the engagement of tectonic plates.<\/li>\n<li>Metamorphism: the change of minerals or geologic texture in pre-existing rocks without prolithic melting into liquid magma.<\/li>\n<li>Seismic: of relating to earthquakes or other vibration of the earth and the crust<\/li>\n<li>Deformation: a change in the shape or the dimensions of the body, resulting from stress, strain.<\/li>\n<li>Basin: a natural depression on the Earth\u2019s surface, usually containing water<\/li>\n<li>Stratigraphy: the branch of study which studies rock layers and layering<\/li>\n<li>Terrane: a fault bounded or region with a distinct stratigraphy<\/li>\n<li>Cretateous: of, relating to, or denoting the last period of the Mesozoic era, between the Jurassic and Tertiary periods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subduction: the process that takes place at convergent boundaries\u00a0by which one tectonic plate\u00a0moves 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\u2019s lithosphere due to the engagement of tectonic plates. Metamorphism: the change of minerals or geologic texture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/glossary-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glossary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27902,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eosc311geoscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}