Geology 1410 Test 2

Front 1

The uncosolidted layer of sediment completely lacking orgniace material that was accumlated on the surrface of the moon is called

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regolith

Front 2

Which metamorphic scenario is associated with bolide impacts//

Back 2

Shock metamorphism

Front 3

Dyanmic metamorphism is associated with

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Shear stress long fualt zones

Front 4

Which of the folloing modes of weathering istthe most signifacnt, in terms of its influence on the extent of degradationg of rocks?

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Chemical Weathering

Front 5

If Metamorphosis resuslts in the formation of new minerals as rocks are buried, why is it that those new minerals do not back-react to from the origianl minearsl when the rock is exhumed.

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Mineral Change requires the addition of stress thatg only occurs during burial.

Front 6

Which type of rock can be transformed into another type of rock

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igneous,sedimentary,and metamorphic

Front 7

Which of the following metamorphic rocks is paired with one of its possible protoliths PHYLLITE

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SHALE

Front 8

Which of the following soil types is most likely to be generated in a tropical jungle

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laterite

Front 9

Which of the following is likely depositional environment for limestone

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Warm Shallow Sea

Front 10

A prphyroblast is:??

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A particularly large crystal set in matrix of smaller crystals with in a metamorphic rock.

Front 11

In what order FIRST TO LAST do evaporite minerals precipitate from Concentrated sea water(halite,gypsum, calcite ,sylvite)

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Calcity Gypsum Halite Sylvite

Front 12

Which type of metamorphism is most commonly associated with convergent tectonic boundaries

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Regional MetamorphismWhich of tghe following sedimenary structures would indicate deposition in an arid environment

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Scour and fill structures

Front 13

Name four types of mechanical weathring

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Frost Wedging,Glacial Scour, Exfoliation, Impact

Front 14

Which of the following began first(cenozoic,mesozoid,paleozoid,proterozoid,phanerozocoi,)

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Prterozoic

Front 15

of the folowing metamorphic scenarios, which can be expected to affect the broades area?

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Regianl Metamorphism

Front 16

Which is in the correct order

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Cambrian, Devonian, Triassic, Neogene, Quaternary

Front 17

Which of the following began first (Permian, Archean, Cambrian, Paleogene, Ordovician)

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Archean

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Whats not true about rocks

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Weathering only affects rock not sediments

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What do you expect to see in the sediment as it is ttranported awy from its source

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Grain size decreases, sortingb increases

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Cross beding or cross lamination is fromed by

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a migration of riples or dunes

Front 21

Which is the most significant agaent of erosion and traport on earth

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Water

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A normally graded bed probably indicates

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Reduction in current volociy dureing depostion

Front 23

What is a depositional environmentfor coal.

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Swamp or bgo

Front 24

How many periods are there between 542milliong and 65.5 million/

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Ten

Front 25

Which of the following types of limesont has large visible grains

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Intraclast limeston

Front 26

Which of the folloing is likely depositional environment for black shael

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Deep ocean basin

Front 27

An even that occured 738,000,00 years ago took place in which geochronologic unit?

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Prooterozoic

Front 28

Which of the following minerals is most resistant to chemcial weathring

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quartz

Front 29

Why is black shale black

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The sediment that formed it was full of undecayed orgaine material

Front 30

What are geochronolic boundary is associated with 542,00,000 years ago.

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The geninning of phanerozoic, the beg of Paleozoid, The end of tghePrecambrian, The end of the Proterozoic

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A residual soil is fromed:

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Directly on its soource rock

Front 32

Which gives grain sizes from the wentworth scale in their appropriate order, from largest to smallest

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Grtavel, Sand, Silt, Clay

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The boundary between the mesozoidc and cenozoic ear is aprox

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2.5millions

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What is meant by a deposioonatl environment

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an environment in which sediment accumulates

Front 35

Which metamorphic rock is mos likely to bepresent in a contact metamorphic aureole

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Hornfels

Front 36

Which is the most abundant types of sedimaentary rock

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Shale/mudstone

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Whih of the order of filated metamorphic rocks from lowest to hightest grade (gneiss,slate,pylite,Schist)

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Slate,Phylite,Schist,Gneiss

Front 38

The chemicals in chemical sediments come, either directly or indirectly forom:

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Ions dissolved from rocks during checmial weathering

Front 39

What is that distingueses arkose from outher sandstones

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It contais large proportion of feldspar

Front 40

Which of the folowing metamorphic rocks is paired whith on t is possible parents rocks? GNEISS

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Granite

Front 41

Whihc of the following is not a change that can occur uring diagenesis

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Melting

Front 42

Of the following metamorphic scenarios, which i s associated with confining pressure and a temperature increase that is appropriate for the depth involved

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Burial Meamorphism

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Which of theoololing rocks will always effervesce in acid

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Chalk

Front 44

Which of the folloing meamorphic scenarios is not correctly associated with the type sof stress involved

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Contact Meamorphic Shear Stress

Front 45

Which of the folloing list is corect order

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Missipian Triassic, Neogene, Quaternary

Front 46

The uncosolidted layer of sediment completely lacking orgniace material that was accumlated on the surrface of the moon is called

Back 46

regolith

Front 47

Which metamorphic scenario is associated with bolide impacts

Back 47

Shock metamorphism

Front 48

Dyanmic metamorphism is associated with

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Shear stress long fualt zones