If you're not one with the rocks
True or False
Leftovers
Only if you dare
100
What did springs along the Wabash River first attract?
Indians
100
True or False? Earthquakes have been recorded in the Northern edge of the Wabash Valley Fault System.
False: No earthquakes have been recorded
100
What formations are the bedrock throughout the southwestern and west-central part of the state, from the Ohio River north to Warren County.
Pennsylvanian formations
100
Why does little coal come from early and late Pennsylvanian rocks?
because the seams are thin and full of impurities
200
What were important avenues for the early settlers in the area?
the Ohio and Wabash Rivers
200
True or False? Since the 1930’s coal has been dug from southwestern Indiana.
False: since the 1830’s
200
In what direction did Illinoian ice advance into Indiana?
North and Northeast
200
What were the Ohio and Wabash rivers when the great Pleistocene glaciers were melting?
They were major meltwater streams.
300
What did early miners operate with little consideration of?
the environment
300
True or False? As the demand for coal rose in 1850 companies dug underground mines.
True
300
What swept tremendous volumes of silt, sand, and gravel away from the former areas of ice?
Meltwater
300
11. Name two of the leading counties that produce the most coal.
2 of any of these: Greene, Knox, Pike, Sullivan, Vigo, & Warrick
400
Forty-seven hundred of what kind of trees were planted at Clay City in order to combat soil heaps?
fruit trees
400
True or False? Early settlers found that the clays exposed along the hillsides were soft, and fired well?
True
400
What structure extends from the Ohio River north to the Parke-Vigo county line and from the Wabash River east to the edge of the Crawford Upland.
The Wabash Lowland
400
What was the source of the clay used to make the first building bricks in Attica?
a ravine
500
Where was the discovery in 1851 that led to 100,000 tons of coal annually reduced in Warren County by 1860?
East of Terre Haute
500
True or False? Over time underground mining has grown in place of strip mining and now accounts for most of the production.
False: strip mining has grown in place of underground mining
500
What was found during the 1920’s in Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike, and Sullivan Counties?
A number of small oil fields
500
What are two things within the bounds of the Pennsylvanian formations?
coal mines, vestiges of a once flourishing clay industry, oil fields, & famous fossil occurrences
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