GEOLOGY AND PLANETARY SCIENCE
• a'a
• Acasta formation
• accretionary lapilli
• accretionary wedge
• active fault
• aftershock
• agate
• albedo feature
• alluvium
• Amazonian Epoch
• amethyst
• amphibole
• andesite
• anorthosite
• aquifer
• ash
• asteroid
• asthenosphere
• astrobleme
• banded iron formation
• Barringer Crater
• basalt
• basin
• batholith
• bauxite
• Benioff zone
• beryl
• biominerals
• biotite
• black smoker
• blind thrust fault
• body wave
• breccia
• calcite
• caldera
• Cambrian Period
• carbonate
• Carboniferous Period
• Cenozoic Era
• chalcedony
• chalk
• Chandler wobble
• chaotic terrain
• chert
• Chryse Planitia
• cinder cone
• cinnabar
• clastic rock
• conglomerate
• core
• corundum
• crater
• crater chain
• Cretaceous Period
• Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary
• cross-cutting
• crust
• cryovolcanism
• cryptovolcano
• dacite
• dark halo crater
• debris avalanche
• Devonian Period
• differentiation
• dike
• dolomite
• Dry Valleys
• Earth
• Earth impact craters
• earthquake
• Ediacaran Period
• effusive eruption
• ejecta
• ejecta blanket
• elements, terrestrial abundance
• enstatite
• Eocene Period
• epicenter
• extrusive
• fault
• fault scarp
• feldspar
• fissure
• fluvial
• formation age
• fumarole
• gabbro
• galena
• gardening
• geodesy
• geoid
• geyser
• ghost crater
• Giant's Causeway
• gneiss
• graben
• granite
• Great Rift Valley
• grooved terrain
• Gusev Crater
• gypsum
• halite
• hematite
• Hesperian Epoch
• Holocene Epoch
• hornblende
• hornito
• horst
• hot spot
• hummock
• hypersthene
• ice volcanism
• Iceland spar
• igneous
• igneous age
• ilmenite
• impact basin
• impact crater
• impact melt
• inclusion
• intrusive
• Isidis Planitia
• Jurassic Period
• kipuka
• lahar
• lapilli
• lava
• lava delta
• lava flow
• lava fountain
• lava lake
• lava tube
• limestone
• limu
• lineament
• lithosphere
• littoral cone
• maar
• mafic
• maghemite
• magma
• magnetite
• mantle
• marble
• maria
• mascon
• matrix
• Meridiani Planum
• mesa
• Mesozoic Era
• metamorphic
• meteorite
• mica
• mid-ocean ridge
• Milankovich cycles
• mineral
• Miocene Epoch
• Mohs scale
• montmorillonite
• Morokweng Crater
• mud volcano
• multiringed basin
• Noachian Epoch
• norite
• obsidian
• old surface
• Oligocene Epoch
• olivine
• Olympus Mons
• Ordovician Period
• orthopyroxene
• outgassing
• P wave
• pahoehoe
• Paleozoic Era
• palimpsest
• Pangea
• Pele's hair
• Pele's tears
• peridotite
• permafrost
• Permian Period
• phreatic eruption
• pillow lava
• pit crater
• plagioclase
• planetary features
• plate tectonics
• Pleistocene Period
• plinean eruption
• Pliocene Epoch
• plume
• pluton
• polar wandering
• porosity
• Precambrian
• pressure ridges
• primordial atmosphere
• pseudocrater
• pumice
• pyroclastic
• pyroclastic flow
• pyroxene
• quartz
• quartzite
• Quaternary Period
• radiocarbon
• ray crater
• reducing atmosphere
• regolith
• relief
• resurfacing
• reticulite
• rhyolite
• rift valley
• rift zone
• rille
• ring, planetary
• rock
• S wave
• sandstone
• schist
• scoria
• secondary atmosphere
• secondary crater
• sedimentary
• seismic wave
• shale
• shatter cone
• shield volcano
• silica
• silicates
• sill
• Silurian Period
• slate
• Snowball Earth
• spatter
• spatter and cinder cone
• spatter rampart
• stishovite
• stratigraphic column
• stratigraphy
• stratovolcano
• stromatolite
• Strombolian eruption
• Sudbury Crater
• subduction
• surface wave
• talc
• tectonic
• tectonic plate
• tectonism
• tektite
• tephra
• terracing
• thrust fault
• tidal heating
• topography
• Triassic Period
• troctolite
• troilite
• tsunami
• Utopia Planitia
• vent
• viscuous relaxation
• volcanic ash
• volcanic block
• volcanic bomb
• volcanic dome
• volcanic gas
• volcanism
• volcano
• vulcanian eruption
• young surface
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