ESS 101 Final UW – Questions With Comprehensive
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Chalk deposits, such as are comprised of microscopic calcareous marine
those exposed on the organisms
coastline near Dover,
England ______.
Where would you expect fine-grained shale deposits
fossils to be most likely
preserved?
Where have earthquakes only answers a and b are correct;
occurred within the last 50 - near the surface within the North American plate
years in the Pacific - deep within the Juan de Fuca plate
Northwest?
What area(s) of North only answers a and c are correct;
America are still - northern Great Lakes
isostatically rising today? - Hudson Bay, Canada
The most recent eruption greater than
(1980) of Mt. St. Helens was
_____ previous eruptions
during the Holocene (last
10,000 years).
The topographic higher, younger
expression and age of the
Emperor Seamount chain to
the Hawaiian Islands
becomes progressively _____
and ______ as one travels
from the northwest to the
southeast.
Why is "roof pendant" igneous magma bodies intrude pre-existing country
metamorphosed? rock and metamorphose it along the contact zone
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Terms in this set (34)
Chalk deposits, such as are comprised of microscopic calcareous marine
those exposed on the organisms
coastline near Dover,
England ______.
Where would you expect fine-grained shale deposits
fossils to be most likely
preserved?
Where have earthquakes only answers a and b are correct;
occurred within the last 50 - near the surface within the North American plate
years in the Pacific - deep within the Juan de Fuca plate
Northwest?
What area(s) of North only answers a and c are correct;
America are still - northern Great Lakes
isostatically rising today? - Hudson Bay, Canada
The most recent eruption greater than
(1980) of Mt. St. Helens was
_____ previous eruptions
during the Holocene (last
10,000 years).
The topographic higher, younger
expression and age of the
Emperor Seamount chain to
the Hawaiian Islands
becomes progressively _____
and ______ as one travels
from the northwest to the
southeast.
Why is "roof pendant" igneous magma bodies intrude pre-existing country
metamorphosed? rock and metamorphose it along the contact zone
