Chapter 5 and 6 Quiz 3 PHSC 210 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY 2024 LATEST UPDATE.

Chapter 5 and 6 Quiz 3 PHSC 210 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY 2024 LATEST UPDATE. A rope or spring propagating an "S" shaped wave after shaking it is representative of what type of earthquake wave? - CORRECT ANSWER secondary wave Tight folding in sedimentary rocks - CORRECT ANSWER must have occurred before lithification Choose the false statement regarding the events of the eruption of Mount St. Helens - CORRECT ANSWER lava flows blocked the flow of the Toutle River Uniformitarianism can be summed up as: - CORRECT ANSWER the present is the key to the past If you drive through a road cut and see sedimentary layers folded in the shape of an arch, it would be called a(n - CORRECT ANSWER anticline Carbon-14 decays into which element? - CORRECT ANSWER nitrogen In what types of fault does the hanging wall move at a low angle over the foot wall? - CORRECT ANSWER thrust Based on the outside reading, scientists from the RATE team discovered that the loss of helium from small crystals (zircons) can be used as a "clock". Ages of granites from this method were - CORRECT ANSWER 4000 years Which scientist developed many of the basic rules and principles of relative dating? - CORRECT ANSWER Nico Steno