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Midterm 1 | GEOL 3100 - Geology of the Western National Parks, Quizzes of Geology

Class: GEOL 3100 - Geology of the Western National Parks; Subject: Geology; University: California State University-East Bay; Term: Winter 2013;

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2012/2013

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TERM 1
Yellostone National Park
DEFINITION 1
National Park was the first national park established by
Congress and the President in 1872
TERM 2
National Monument
DEFINITION 2
generally smaller area preserving one or a few unique
resources
TERM 3
National Preserve
DEFINITION 3
are areas having characteristics associated with national
parks, but in which congress has permitted continued
public hunting, trapping, oil/gas exploration and
extraction.
TERM 4
Plate Techtotnic Theory
DEFINITION 4
lithospheric plates are in motion, driven by convective
movement of mantle rock.
TERM 5
Geologic Province
DEFINITION 5
Is any large area or region characterized by similar
geologic features or by a geologic history differing
significantly from adjacent areas.
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Yellostone National Park

National Park was the first national park established by

Congress and the President in 1872

TERM 2

National Monument

DEFINITION 2

generally smaller area preserving one or a few unique

resources

TERM 3

National Preserve

DEFINITION 3

are areas having characteristics associated with national

parks, but in which congress has permitted continued

public hunting, trapping, oil/gas exploration and

extraction.

TERM 4

Plate Techtotnic Theory

DEFINITION 4

lithospheric plates are in motion, driven by convective

movement of mantle rock.

TERM 5

Geologic Province

DEFINITION 5

Is any large area or region characterized by similar

geologic features or by a geologic history differing

significantly from adjacent areas.

Crust

Thin, solid outer layer of earth

TERM 7

Crust and the Upper

Mantle

DEFINITION 7

Earth's lithosphere consists

TERM 8

Magnetic Field

DEFINITION 8

Earths' ______________ is/are caused by the movement of the

outer, liquid metal core against the inner, solid mental core

TERM 9

Outer Core

DEFINITION 9

Interior portion of Earth composed dominantly of liquid

iron

TERM 10

The following properties are characteristic of

oceanic crust

DEFINITION 10

high density (3 gm/cc), iron rich, silica poor, floats lower

than continental crust.

NOT 50 km thick.

Convergent Margin

An area where two lithosperic plates are moving toward

each other, resulting in collision and formation of a

mountain chain

TERM 17

Strike-slip fault

DEFINITION 17

Another name for transform boundary

TERM 18

Reverse Fault

DEFINITION 18

A thrust fault is a type of

TERM 19

Footwall

DEFINITION 19

The rock surface below a dip-slip fault

TERM 20

Normal Fault

DEFINITION 20

is one where the hanging wall moved downward relative

to the footwall.

Angular Unconformity

An unconformity in which strata below dip at an angle

different from that of the beds (layers) above is

TERM 22

Bowen's Reaction Series

DEFINITION 22

is a diagram showing order in which different minerals

crystallize during cooling and crystallization of magma.

TERM 23

Magmatic Differentiation

DEFINITION 23

is the process of generating more than one rock type

from a single magma.

TERM 24

Quartz and Feldspars

DEFINITION 24

The dominant minerals in a granitic rock

TERM 25

Pumice

DEFINITION 25

is porous rock from "frothy" lava

Regional Metamorphism

Foliated rocks are associated with

TERM 32

Gypsum

DEFINITION 32

would be an example of a chemical sedimentary rock.

TERM 33

Correlation

DEFINITION 33

the matching of sedimentary rocks of similar ages in

different regions.

TERM 34

Formation

DEFINITION 34

is a rock unit that is distinctive enough in appearance

that a geologic mapper can tell it apart from the

surrounding rock layers.

TERM 35

Principle of Faunal Succession

DEFINITION 35

According to this,fossils in sedimentary rock strata

succeed each other vertically in a specific, reliable order

that can be identified over wide horizontal distances.

Index fossils

are life forms which existed during limited period of

geologic time.

TERM 37

Mesozoic

Era

DEFINITION 37

Dinosaur fossils can be found in rocks on the this era

TERM 38

Precambrian eon

DEFINITION 38

The first one-called organisms were found in rocks

TERM 39

Henri Bacquerel

DEFINITION 39

discovered radioactivity in 1896

TERM 40

Ernest Rutherford

DEFINITION 40

was the first person to propose that radioactive elements

can be used to absolutely age-date rocks