ESS 101 Final Exam – Questions With Precise
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Where do earthquakes -near the surface within the North American plate
occur in the Pacific -deep within the Juna de Fuca plate
Northwest? -along the Cascadia subduction zone
According to Brian none of the above recurrence intervals are correct
Atwater's research along
the Washington coastline,
the recurrence interval of
large Cascadia subduction
zone earthquakes is
___________.
The Great Lakes basin The NORTHERN Great Lakes area is still isostatically
presently drains through RISING and will change the drainage topography
the St. Lawrence River
drainage. Why will the
Great Lakes basin
eventually drain south
through the Mississippi
River drainage?
Zigzag outcrop patterns erosion of plunging anticline and syncline
are the result of ___________.
-magnitude of the earthquake
What factors influence
-proximity to the earthquake's epicenter
earthquake intensity?
-substrate that underlies the surface
-along subduction zones where vertical offset has
Tsunamis may be generated
occurred on the ocean floor
_________.
-submarine landslides due to seismic events
Topset beds of a delta are graded to the elevation of the lake or sea level
_________.
,In order to relieve stress 900
buildup that would cause a
magnitude 7 earthquake,
approximately how many
magnitude 5 earthquakes
would have to occur?
If you dated a volcanic rock would appear younger than the true age of the volcanic
that unknowingly lost argon rock
through diffusion the
resulting potassium- argon
age _________.
A high strain rate is brittle fracture
conducive to _______________
deformation in rock.
During offset of the Seattle -the upthrown side of the fault was uplifted ~27 feet
Fault, 1100 years ago -a tsunami wave was generated in the Puget Sound
__________.
The ________ is exposed in the oldest rock
center of an eroding dome.
-may have repeating strata exposed in a vertical cross-
section
A reverse fault _______________.
-may result in older rock units overlying younger units in
a vertical cross-section
-filling and emptying a reservoir
________________ is an example
-isostatic unloading of the earth's lithosphere following
of elastic deformation.
deglaciation
-permit water and other chemical agents to penetrate
Joints facilitate weathering below the surface
because ________. -provide more surface area for the weathering front to
attack
Why did the depth of rilling the lower moraine was older and subjected to longer
increase on the limestone weathering
boulders deposited on the
three glacial moraines we
observed in lecture?
Limestone will tend to -carbon dioxide content decreases
precipitate in sea water -it is agitated by wave action
when ______.
, Besides frost wedging none of the above answers are correct
which of the following are
examples of mechanical
weathering?
H+ ions utilized in carbonic acid
hydrolysis weathering
reactions come from
_________.
Over time angular joints will the corner of the angular joint is weathered faster than
become rounded due to the joint edge or face
surface weathering
because _______.
Which of the following -wind
transport agents generally -rivers
results in cross beds?
What test would reaction with HCl acid
conclusively tell you that
marble and limestone are
both composed from the
mineral calcite?
Monocline folds result from uni-directional stresses
____________.
precipitation of calcite around sand grains oscillated by
Oolites form from _______.
waves
A sedimentary rock unit that the rock unit was overturned (upside down)
with graded beds that fine
towards the base would
indicate __________.
If a fault offset two is younger than 12,000 years old
landslide deposits that are
radiocarbon dated at
15,000 and 12,000 years old,
respectively, one can infer
that the faulting event
________.
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Terms in this set (172)
Where do earthquakes -near the surface within the North American plate
occur in the Pacific -deep within the Juna de Fuca plate
Northwest? -along the Cascadia subduction zone
According to Brian none of the above recurrence intervals are correct
Atwater's research along
the Washington coastline,
the recurrence interval of
large Cascadia subduction
zone earthquakes is
___________.
The Great Lakes basin The NORTHERN Great Lakes area is still isostatically
presently drains through RISING and will change the drainage topography
the St. Lawrence River
drainage. Why will the
Great Lakes basin
eventually drain south
through the Mississippi
River drainage?
Zigzag outcrop patterns erosion of plunging anticline and syncline
are the result of ___________.
-magnitude of the earthquake
What factors influence
-proximity to the earthquake's epicenter
earthquake intensity?
-substrate that underlies the surface
-along subduction zones where vertical offset has
Tsunamis may be generated
occurred on the ocean floor
_________.
-submarine landslides due to seismic events
Topset beds of a delta are graded to the elevation of the lake or sea level
_________.
,In order to relieve stress 900
buildup that would cause a
magnitude 7 earthquake,
approximately how many
magnitude 5 earthquakes
would have to occur?
If you dated a volcanic rock would appear younger than the true age of the volcanic
that unknowingly lost argon rock
through diffusion the
resulting potassium- argon
age _________.
A high strain rate is brittle fracture
conducive to _______________
deformation in rock.
During offset of the Seattle -the upthrown side of the fault was uplifted ~27 feet
Fault, 1100 years ago -a tsunami wave was generated in the Puget Sound
__________.
The ________ is exposed in the oldest rock
center of an eroding dome.
-may have repeating strata exposed in a vertical cross-
section
A reverse fault _______________.
-may result in older rock units overlying younger units in
a vertical cross-section
-filling and emptying a reservoir
________________ is an example
-isostatic unloading of the earth's lithosphere following
of elastic deformation.
deglaciation
-permit water and other chemical agents to penetrate
Joints facilitate weathering below the surface
because ________. -provide more surface area for the weathering front to
attack
Why did the depth of rilling the lower moraine was older and subjected to longer
increase on the limestone weathering
boulders deposited on the
three glacial moraines we
observed in lecture?
Limestone will tend to -carbon dioxide content decreases
precipitate in sea water -it is agitated by wave action
when ______.
, Besides frost wedging none of the above answers are correct
which of the following are
examples of mechanical
weathering?
H+ ions utilized in carbonic acid
hydrolysis weathering
reactions come from
_________.
Over time angular joints will the corner of the angular joint is weathered faster than
become rounded due to the joint edge or face
surface weathering
because _______.
Which of the following -wind
transport agents generally -rivers
results in cross beds?
What test would reaction with HCl acid
conclusively tell you that
marble and limestone are
both composed from the
mineral calcite?
Monocline folds result from uni-directional stresses
____________.
precipitation of calcite around sand grains oscillated by
Oolites form from _______.
waves
A sedimentary rock unit that the rock unit was overturned (upside down)
with graded beds that fine
towards the base would
indicate __________.
If a fault offset two is younger than 12,000 years old
landslide deposits that are
radiocarbon dated at
15,000 and 12,000 years old,
respectively, one can infer
that the faulting event
________.
