ASBOG practice EXAM PREP 2024/2025 with 100% correct answers
The assemblage of albite, chlorite, actinolite, and calcite would be most characteristic of -
✔✔greenschist facies
The assemblage of hornblende + plagioclase would most likely be - ✔✔amphiboite facies
In carbonates wollastonite + anorthite + diopside would most likely be - ✔✔sanidinite facies
The formula K(AlSi3O8) is for what mineral - ✔✔sanidine
What are some common associative minerals with sanidine - ✔✔Quartz, Muscovite, Biotite,
Plagioclase feldspars,
quartz + jadeite + lawsonite ± phengite, glaucophane, chlorite would most likely be a chacteristic
of - ✔✔blueshist facies
A braided stream usually indicates that the stream - ✔✔has greater load than capacity
the soil of CL would be best for - ✔✔the use of an aquitard
A fissure vein of gold quartz would most likely be associated with - ✔✔rare earths
A titaniferous magnetite deposit would most likely be associated with - ✔✔mafic and ultramafic
intrusive bodies
What a mass of small loose stones that form or cover a slope on a mountain - ✔✔scree
What is pile of rocks that accumulates at the base of a cliff, chute, or slope - ✔✔pile of rocks that
accumulates at the base of a cliff, chute, or slope
, What is an inclinometer used for - ✔✔an instrument for measuring angles of slope (or tilt),
elevation or depression of an object with respect to gravity
What is a type of electrical transformer used for measuring linear displacement (position). -
✔✔A linear variable differential transformer
What is a transducer that is used to create an electrical signal whose magnitude is directly
proportional to the force being measured - ✔✔load cell
What is a device that is used to measure changes in the length of an object - ✔✔a extensometer
What geophysical technique of magnetics could be used to investigate - ✔✔a skarn
Caves found within limestone result from - ✔✔slowly circulating water below the water table
Plagioclase, quartz, biotite, and hornblende would most likely be found in - ✔✔dacite
Plagioclase plus pyroxene or hornblende could be found in - ✔✔andesite
What is an alkali feldspar with minor amounts of dark-coloured minerals such as biotite,
amphibole, or pyroxene - ✔✔trachyte
Convergent plate margins are characterized by - ✔✔melanges of feldspathic sandstone, siltstone
and shale
What are alternatingly compressional and extensional, and cause the rocks they pass through to
change in volume - ✔✔primary waves
The assemblage of albite, chlorite, actinolite, and calcite would be most characteristic of -
✔✔greenschist facies
The assemblage of hornblende + plagioclase would most likely be - ✔✔amphiboite facies
In carbonates wollastonite + anorthite + diopside would most likely be - ✔✔sanidinite facies
The formula K(AlSi3O8) is for what mineral - ✔✔sanidine
What are some common associative minerals with sanidine - ✔✔Quartz, Muscovite, Biotite,
Plagioclase feldspars,
quartz + jadeite + lawsonite ± phengite, glaucophane, chlorite would most likely be a chacteristic
of - ✔✔blueshist facies
A braided stream usually indicates that the stream - ✔✔has greater load than capacity
the soil of CL would be best for - ✔✔the use of an aquitard
A fissure vein of gold quartz would most likely be associated with - ✔✔rare earths
A titaniferous magnetite deposit would most likely be associated with - ✔✔mafic and ultramafic
intrusive bodies
What a mass of small loose stones that form or cover a slope on a mountain - ✔✔scree
What is pile of rocks that accumulates at the base of a cliff, chute, or slope - ✔✔pile of rocks that
accumulates at the base of a cliff, chute, or slope
, What is an inclinometer used for - ✔✔an instrument for measuring angles of slope (or tilt),
elevation or depression of an object with respect to gravity
What is a type of electrical transformer used for measuring linear displacement (position). -
✔✔A linear variable differential transformer
What is a transducer that is used to create an electrical signal whose magnitude is directly
proportional to the force being measured - ✔✔load cell
What is a device that is used to measure changes in the length of an object - ✔✔a extensometer
What geophysical technique of magnetics could be used to investigate - ✔✔a skarn
Caves found within limestone result from - ✔✔slowly circulating water below the water table
Plagioclase, quartz, biotite, and hornblende would most likely be found in - ✔✔dacite
Plagioclase plus pyroxene or hornblende could be found in - ✔✔andesite
What is an alkali feldspar with minor amounts of dark-coloured minerals such as biotite,
amphibole, or pyroxene - ✔✔trachyte
Convergent plate margins are characterized by - ✔✔melanges of feldspathic sandstone, siltstone
and shale
What are alternatingly compressional and extensional, and cause the rocks they pass through to
change in volume - ✔✔primary waves
