Geology 100: Exam 3 Review
- Last lecture: Thu, Dec 3 (review)
- Last day: Tues, Dec 8th
- Final:
- Tues, Dec 8th around 3pm until 8
- or Tues, Dec 15th@5:20pm
- 1.5hr
- 40 questions
- Geologic time and Plate Tectonics
Review
- When did dinosaurs Become extinct
- How old is earth
- Which era did dinosaurs live
- What was the earliest form of life
- Eras and periods of geologic time table (keep handy)
- In what era do we live now?
- Who is father of geology
- Unconformity
- Unitarism
- What isotope for events in past 50k years
- What is half-life
- If 25% is left how many half-lives
- Faunal succession
- Which isotope is used for organic remains
- Mesozoic super continent’s name?
- How old is oldest oceanic crust
- Given something like east Africa ridge what type of plate boundary
- Where find submarine trenches and what type of plate boundary
- How did the Andes mountains form?
- What did Vine&Matthews explain?
- What explains magnetic stripes orientation on ocean floor
- What is mechanism for plate tectonics
- What type of setting is Iceland
- Who originated idea of continental drift and what evidence
- Why was it rejected
- What is the curie point?
- What is the lithosphere
- How were Himmalayan mountains formed
- What is a transform plate boundary
