Channeled Scablands - Quiz
A) Active volcanic calderas and lava tubes B) Rolling hills of deep fertile soil and dense forests C) Interconnected relict and dry flood channels, coulees, cataracts, and flat-lying basalt flows D) Glacial moraines and deep U-shaped alpine valleys
A) Southwestern part B) Northeastern part C) Southeastern part D) Northwestern part
A) Only 1 B) More than 40 C) Around 12 D) Exactly 5
A) A large glacial lake breaking through its ice dam B) Rapid melting of local mountain glaciers C) Prolonged heavy rainfall over several decades D) Tectonic plate shifts and massive earthquakes
A) Holocene epoch B) Pleistocene epoch C) Miocene epoch D) Cretaceous epoch
A) Between 18,200 and 14,000 years ago B) Between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago C) Between 1 million and 800,000 years ago D) Between 50,000 and 45,000 years ago
A) Sandstone dunes B) Granite bedrock C) Alluvial clay deposits D) Palouse loess
A) The Geological Society of America B) J. T. Pardee C) J Harlen Bretz D) The Penrose committee
A) 3 km B) 11 km C) 75 km D) 30 km
A) They are perhaps the best terrestrial analog of Martian outflow channels B) They show evidence of ancient extraterrestrial impacts C) Their basalt matches the composition of lunar maria D) They contain meteorites from Mars
A) 5,000 cubic miles B) 500 cubic miles C) 50 cubic miles D) 500,000 cubic miles
A) Glacial scraping theories B) Catastrophist creationist theories C) Extraterrestrial impact theories D) Uniformitarian theories
A) An anonymous reviewer B) J Harlen Bretz himself C) A planetary scientist from NASA D) J. T. Pardee
A) Lake Lahontan B) Lake Bonneville C) Lake Agassiz D) Lake Missoula
A) Radiocarbon dating B) Magnetostratigraphy C) Open-channel hydraulics D) Seismic tomography
A) Penrose Medal B) Hayden Memorial Geological Award C) Vaughan CCS Medal D) Wollaston Medal
A) Circular cross section B) V-shaped cross section C) Rectangular cross section D) U-shaped cross section
A) 100 and 500 square miles B) 1,500 and 2,000 square miles C) 50,000 and 70,000 square miles D) 10,000 and 15,000 square miles
A) An entrance in the northeast and an exit in the southwest B) An entrance in the south and an exit in the north C) A closed basin with no external exit D) A radial drainage pattern originating from a central peak
A) Laurentide ice sheet B) Greenland ice sheet C) Patagonian ice sheet D) Cordilleran ice sheet
A) Anastomosing, or braided, appearance B) A grid-like rectangular matrix C) A single straight linear trench D) A series of concentric rings
A) Sometime before 1.5 million years ago B) During the Holocene epoch C) Exactly 10,000 years ago D) Within the last 5,000 years
A) Between 3 and 49 feet high B) Between 100 and 200 feet high C) Microscopic ridges in the basalt D) Only a few centimeters high
A) Tsunamis B) Kolks C) Whirlpools D) Eddies
A) Volcanic bombs ejected during basalt eruptions B) Sedimentary layers formed by windblown dust C) Small pebbles polished smooth by river currents D) Large boulders that rafted on glaciers and were deposited by glacial outburst flooding
A) J Harlen Bretz B) Marjorie Burns C) H. T. Smith D) John Soennichsen
A) 0-1086-623053 B) 978-1-57061-505-4 C) 0-88192-215-3 D) 0-1130-0016-7
A) 978-1-57061-505-4 B) 0-88192-215-3 C) 0-1086-623179 D) 0-1130-0016-7
A) 1923 B) 1956 C) 1986 D) 1925
A) Journal of Geology B) Timber Press C) Sasquatch Books D) Geological Society of America
A) Portland, Oregon B) Seattle, Washington C) Chicago, Illinois D) Washington, D.C.
A) Volume 33, issue 2 B) Volume 31, issue 2 C) Volume 67, issue 8 D) Volume 31, issue 8
A) 97–115, 236–259 B) 1–50 C) 957–1049 D) 617–649 |
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