Geology of North America |
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The large strike-slip fault that splits California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
The plate currently being subducted under Vancouver Island
What is the Juan de Fuca plate?
The mountain belt that resulted from the collision of the North American Plate with the European and African Plates 250 million years ago
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The oldest known rock in the world.
The tectonic province that underlies Ottawa.
A metamorphosed mud-rock with prominent development of coarse grained micas
A mineral indicative of low pressure, high temperature metamorphism in pelites
What is andalusite or cordierite?
This red and green rock would probably be white-hot under the conditions of its formation
The man who first identified the zonal sequence chlorite-biotite-garnet- staurolite-kyanite-sillimanite in pelites.
The number of degrees of freedom at the aluminosilicate triple point
Toronto girls can fight and other quaint things can do
Martha visits every Monday, just stays until noon
What are the planets of the Solar System?
Please eat old mashed potatoes
What are the epochs of the Tertiary?
Carry on singing, don't mind Polly pouting, try joining Colonel Tom's choir.
What are the periods of Phanerozoic?
King Paul cuts off five good steaks
What are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species?
Everest, Nanga Parbat, Dhaulagiri
Cotopaxi, Aconcagua, Huascarán
Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Gantrisch
What are the Alps?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Place your bet!
What are the Scottish Highlands?
Dun Mountain, Mt. Cook, Mt. Tasman
How many years old is the Earth?
What is the course number for Geomorphology?
What is the temperature of absolute zero in degrees Celsius?
What is the the refractive index of Petropoxy?
When was the start of the Cambrian?
An extinct class of Phylum Arthropoda, characterised by a cephalon, a thorax and a pygidium.
Members of the Phylum Coelenterata, which today are responsible for the largest biogenic structures on Earth.
An extinct order, well represented in Paleozoic rocks, characterised by a rhabdosome of 1, 2, 4 or many stipes containing thecae arranged around a common canal.
Sessile marine organisms that come in articulate and inarticulate varieties - only the inarticulate ones survive today.
Extinct class, members of the Phylum Mollusca that lived as planar coiled organisms with highly complex sutures separating chambers.