Geol 100 Exam #3

What type of stress formed the structure shown in this figure?

What type of stress formed the structure shown in this figure?

What type of structure is shown in this photograph?

What does the horizontal line along the intersection of the plane and the water represent?

What type of stress could form the fault in this figure?

What type of structure is shown in this figure?

Which of the following matches a sedimentary rock with a possible metamorphic equivalent?

Which of the numbers on this figure indicates high pressure/low-temperature metamorphic conditions?

What type of feature is shown in this photograph?

What kind of structure is shown in this image?

This photograph shows an upper light-colored conglomerate and a lower dark basalt. Which of the following statements is true?

Which principle of relative age dating can be used to determine when the river formed on the landscape?

This figure shows a disconformity between an upper dark layer (being deposited by the sea) and a lower light-colored layer. What happened to form this disconformity?

If a rock started with 1,000 atoms of a parent but now contains 250 atoms, how many half lives have passed?

The impressions of fossil shells in this photograph probably indicate that the rock was deposited:

Unit C is present in the left column but not the right column because:

This figure shows two sections of rocks. What is the youngest unit?

Which of the following forms different layers from season to season and can be used to determine how many years the layers represent?

What were some of the earliest forms of life on Earth?

What was the Cambrian explosion?