Steno
Plate Tectonics
Fossils
Geologic Time
Volcanoes
100
His original profession.
What is anatomist?
100
The most active set of plate boundaries on the planet.
What is ring of fire?
100
Like at Pompeii.
What is mold and cast?
100
The longest geologic time period.
What is an Eon?
100
High content of this mineral in magma leads to the most violent eruptions.
What is silica?
200
The principle he developed to explain the orientation of strata when first laid down.
What is original horizontality?
200
Plate boundaries that are moving toward eachother.
What is convergent.
200
The best type of fossils to use to date rock.
What is an index fossil?
200
The shortest geologic period?
What is epoch?
200
Tall, steep side volcanoes.
What are stratovolcanoes?
300
The type of dating that Steno could not do.
What is absolute (radiometric)?
300
Type of plate boundary that is at the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
What is divergent?
300
Type of fossilization that is like the iceman.
What is original preservation?
300
The basis on which divisions on the geologic time scale are generally based upon this.
What is extinctions.
300
The mountain range that Mt St Helens is in.
What are the cascades?
400
Steno's principle that describes the ordering in age of strata.
What is superposition?
400
An area where one plate is being forced down into the mantle.
What is a subduction zone?
400
Only type of rock that a fossil can form in.
What is sedimentary?
400
The meaning of zoic.
What is life
400
A collpased volcano feature, like Yellowstone.
What is a caldera?
500
Steno's principle that allows for matching of strata on opposite sides of a canyon.
What is lateral continuity?
500
The San Andreas fault is this type of plate boundary.
What is transform?
500
The formation in Canada that was a treasure trove of fossils?
What is Burgess Shale?
500
The meaning of paleo.
What is old?
500
Volcanoes on Hawaii are this type.
What is shield?
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