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