A trace of an organism that has been preserved in the geologic record.
What is a fossil?
100
A mafic extrusive rock that forms Hawaiian shield volcanoes.
What is basalt?
100
A subdiscipline of hydrology that focuses on groundwater.
What is hydrogeology?
100
The process which turns buried sediments into sedimentary rocks.
What is diagenesis?
100
Sits at the front desk in the Holland Center.
Who is Tim?
200
Fossilized poop.
What is a coprolite?
200
An isotropic, high relief mineral with cubic crystal structure. AKA garbage mineral
What is garnet?
200
The process by which water enters the groundwater system, or more precisely, enters the phreatic zone.
What is recharge?
200
The three main components that make up a sandstone.
What are quartz, feldspars, and lithic rock fragments?
200
The paleontology professor with a license to kill (reptiles).
Who is Bell, Chris Bell?
300
The part of the skeleton that paleontologists identify most mammals by.
What are teeth?
300
A region in which country rocks surrounding an igneous body have been recrystallized in response to the heat supplied by the intrusion.
What is a contact aureole?
300
A consolidated or unconsolidated geologic unit or set of connected units that yield water of suitable quality to wells or springs in economically usable amounts.
What is an aquifer?
300
A spherical, non-skeletal grain of CaCO3 which is usually less than 2 mm in diameter.
What is an ooid?
300
The preferred nickname of Dr. Wonsuck Kim.
What is delta?
400
A three-lobed arthropod
What is a trilobite?
400
This structure results from the presence of submarine extrusion of magma.
What is a pillow basalt?
400
The boundary between the saturated and unsaturated zones
What is the water table
400
A sedimentary structure commonly found in cavity fills where the lower part of the cavity has been filled with sediment and the upper part filled later with cement.
What is geopetal structure?
400
"Diamonds are forever"
What is Afu?
500
Best known for his theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics (if an organism changes during life in order to adapt to its environment, those changes are passed on to its offspring).
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
500
A pleochroic green metamorphic mineral with anomalous blue birefringence.
What is chlorite?
500
An equation that describes the flow of a fluid through a porous medium.
What is Darcy's law
500
The law that implies that a vertical sequence of facies will be the product of a series of depositional environments which lay laterally adjacent to each other.