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