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1. The contact between the granite and the gneiss represents what type of contact?
a. intrusive contact.
b. fault (tectonic) contact.
c. nonconformity.
d. angular unconformity.
e. disconformity.
2. Which rock unit is the oldest in this cross-section?
a. Diorite
b. Basalt
c. Granite
d. Gneiss
e. Breccia
3. What principle allows you to best distinguish the age relationship between the
gneiss and the diorite?
a. law of superposition
b. law of original continuity
c. law of original
horizontality
d. cross-cutting relationship
e. principle of inclusion
4. The granite cuts across the gneiss, what other principle allows you to distinguish the
age relationship between the gneiss and the granite?
a. law of superposition
b. law of original continuity
c. law of original
horizontality
d. principle of inclusion
e. faunal succession
5. The contact between the gneiss and the overlying fractured sandstone represents
what type of contact?
a. intrusive contact.
b. fault (tectonic) contact.
c. nonconformity.
d. angular unconformity.
e. disconformity.
6. If you were uncertain of the type of contact between the granite and the overlying
fractured sandstone, which principle would allow you to determine it’s nature?
a. law of superposition
b. law of original continuity
c. law of original
horizontality
d. principle of inclusion
e. faunal succession
7. What type of contact exists at the base of the cross-bedded sandstone?
a. conformable depositional
contact.
b. fault (tectonic) contact.
c. nonconformity.
d. angular unconformity.
e. disconformity.
8. What type of contact exists at the base of the limestone?
a. conformable depositional
contact.
b. fault (tectonic) contact.
c. nonconformity.
d. angular unconformity.
e. disconformity.
9. What type of contact exists between the volcanic breccia and the underlying diorite?
a. intrusive contact.
b. conformable depositional
contact.
c. nonconformity.
d. angular unconformity.
e. disconformity.
10. What type of contact exists between the volcanic breccia and the underlying
limestone?
a. intrusive contact.
b. conformable depositional
contact.
c. nonconformity.
d. angular unconformity.
e. disconformity.
11. Which rock type is the youngest in the Hutton Gulch region?
a. basalt
b. diorite
c. limestone
d. volcanic breccia
e. breccia
12. What relationship best allows you to determine the youngest rock in the Hutton
Gulch Region? (Hint: How can you determine between the youngest rock and next
oldest in the sequence?)
a. law of superposition
b. law of original continuity
c. law of original
horizontality
d. cross-cutting relationship
e. principle of inclusion
13. Which of these geologic events are most recent?
a. Deposition of the breccia.
b. Volcanic eruption forming
basalt flows on Earth’s
surface.
c. Movement along Steno’s
fault.
d. Volcanic eruption and
emplacement of the
volcanic breccia.
e. Deposition of limestone.
14. In what Geologic Era did fauting occur in this region?
a. Paleozoic b. Pre-
Cambrian
c. Mesozoic
d. Cenozoic
15. In what Geologic Era did folding occur in this region?
a. Paleozoic b. Pre-
Cambrian
c. Mesozoic
d. Cenozoic
16. What relationship best allows you to determine the age relationships between
folding and faulting in this region?
a. law of superposition
b. law of original continuity
c. law of original
horizontality
d. cross-cutting relationship
e. principle of inclusion
17. How many periods of uplift and erosion are represented in this cross-section? Do
NOT include eroison of the current surface of the Earth.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
18. In what Geologic Era did volcanism first occur in this region?
a. Paleozoic
b. Pre-Cambrian
c. Mesozoic
d. Cenozoic
19. In what Geologic Era did intrusion of the diorite occur?
a. Paleozoic
b. Pre-Cambrian
c. Mesozoic
d. Cenozoic
20. Of these geologic evenets, which is the most recent (youngest)?
a. Basalt lava flows at the Earth’s surface.
b. Movement along Steno’s fault.
c. Deposition of the sedimentary breccia.
d. Volcanic ash flows forming the volcanic breccia.
Explanation / Answer
1.a) Intrusive contact
2.d)Gneiss
3.d) cross-cutting replationship
4. d) principle of inclusion.
5. c)non-conformity.
6. d) principle of inclusion
7.confomrable depositional contact.
8.d)angular unconformity
9. b) disconformity
10.c)non-conformity.
11.a) basalt
12.a) law of superposition.
13. c) Movement along Steno's Fault
14.d) cenozoic
15.c) Mesozoic
16.d) cross cutting relationship.
17.c) 3
18.d) cenozoic
19.c)Mesozoic
20.MOvement along Steno's fault.
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