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Continental Drift and Cartographic Enigmas
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Gently sloping rock surface at the base of a mountain front
  • 2. Plate tectonic crossroads in modern-day Turkey
  • 3. Science of landforms and the processes shaping them
  • 5. Pertaining to periods of increased rainfall in geologic past
  • 7. Oceanic layer where temperature rapidly changes with depth
  • 10. Point where a river splits, giving rise to distributaries
  • 12. Broad, slow vertical movements of continents vs. orogeny
  • 13. Waterfall or steep rapids obstructing river navigation
  • 14. Relating to or formed in lakes, especially sediment deposits
Down
  • 4. Catchment area funneling precipitation into a main river
  • 6. Ancient atmospheric conditions inferred through proxies
  • 8. Chain or cluster of islands usually volcanic or continental
  • 9. Equilibrium state of the lithosphere floating on the mantle
  • 11. Rigid outer shell of Earth including crust and upper mantle
  • 15. Topographic depression or basin identified by echo sounding
  • 16. Steep slope or cliff formed by displacement during an earthquake
  • 17. Instrument aiding navigation by maintaining orientation, linked to geography
  • 18. Mountain-building epoch marked by crustal deformation

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