Wisconsin Geology
What is Red Granite?
IMAGE QUESTION
Name the rock made of 43% quartz, 52% Plagioclase Feldspar, and 5% Alkali Feldspar
What is tonolite?
Wisconsin's state fossil
bonus 500 points: name the specific species
What is a trilobite?
What is Calymene celebra?
The age of the Earth
What is 4.6 billion years old?
The founding year of the geoscience department
What is 1878?
A range of precambrian rocks surrounded by primarily Paleozoic sedimentary units about an hour North of Madison
What are the Baraboo Hills?
This depositional environment is where you would find cross-bedded sandstones, which indicate ancient dune formations
What is a desert/aeolian environment?
What is a stromatolite?
The geologic time period we exist in today (epoch or period)
What is the Holocene or Quaternary?
Basil is from this state
What is Utah?
Wisconsin's state mineral
What is Galena?
You would find black shales, often associated with ancient ocean anoxic events in this depositional environment
What is a deep marine environment?
A unit where an exceptional number of soft bodied organisms are preserved
What is the Burgess Shale?
This date marks the beginning of the Cambrian
What is 541 million years ago (539-542)?
Shannan brought this instrument on a few field trips last spring.
What is a banjo?
Over a million years ago, this river flowed in the opposite direction that it does today
What is the Wisconsin River?
This aquifer contains naturally occurring arsenic in what formation, located in Wisconsin?
What is the St. Peter Sandstone?
This fossil provides evidence of the transition between dinosaurs and birds
What is the Archaeopteryx?
This Eon contains most of Earth's history
What is the Phanerozoic?
Construction on Weeks Hall began in this year
What is 1972?
This continental rift is associated with significant volcanic activity in Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and started 1.1 billion years ago
What is the Kewaneewan Rift?
IMAGE QUESTION
Identify the feature demonstrated in this diagram
What is a left lateral strike slip fault?
This is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation
What is a Lagerstätte?
Plants first colonized land during this time period
What is the Devonian?
The name of Dr. B's most recent baby.
What is Theodore (Theo)?