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UP CWM Zena'na Geology Board Review Day 1 ExamQuestions And Answers
Steno's Laws - Answer Principles that describe the relative ages of sedimentary rock
layers.
Laccolith - Answer A type of igneous intrusion that has thickened to produce domes.
Spalling - Answer The process where originally unjointed rocks experience
compression and produce thin, curved shells.
Scleractinian Corals - Answer Corals that first appeared in the Cambrian period.
Sequence - Answer A relatively conformable succession of genetically related strata
bounded by unconformities.
Knickpoint - Answer A sharp change in channel slope resulting from differential rates of
erosion.
Milankovitch theory - Answer Theory based on cyclical alterations in Earth's orbit
around the Sun.
Incised valleys - Answer Valleys formed during lowstand systems tract.
Age of the Fishes - Answer Refers to the Devonian period.
Outer core thickness - Answer Approximately 2900 km.
, First mammals - Answer Appeared during the Triassic period.
Earth's transition zone depth - Answer Found at a depth of 250 to 410 km.
Thanatocoenosis - Answer Death assemblage where not all species present are
represented as fossils.
Neogene - Answer Composed of Pleistocene, Pliocene, and Miocene epochs.
E horizon - Answer Soil horizon significantly leached of minerals, present in older soils.
Cambrian period - Answer First geological period of the Paleozoic Era, succeeded by
the Ordovician.
Collision-Pull apart basin tectonics - Answer Explains the evolution of South East Asia.
Earth's obliquity change period - Answer Approximately 40,000 years.
Avulsion - Answer Sudden change in the course of a river leading to abandoned
channels.
Strike-slip fault - Answer Type of fault where the minimum stress is horizontal.
Mt. Rushmore - Answer Carved with the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
and Theodore Roosevelt.
Thickest sedimentary basin - Answer The basin whose fill reaches up to 12,000 m is the
Visayan Basin.
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