Rocks & Minerals
When my mafic magma erupts on the surface, it produces this extrusive volcanic rock.
What is basalt?
The only officer studying something other than geology, this officer is becoming a dentist.
Who is Alex?
Populated by administration, this south campus building is the oldest on campus.
What is Barge Hall?
The dark columnar rocks found across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and a little bit of Nevada, made up of the Grande Ronde and other formations (bonus for naming them!).
What are the Columbia River Basalts?
50 pts each: Steens, Imnaha, Wanapum, Saddle Mountains.
#germanchocolatecake
#PICTUREGORGEISNOTREAL
A state of matter with definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
Mostly due to deep-sea sediments, this is the most common sedimentary rock.
What is mudstone/mudrock/shale/siltstone?
This officer is a prolific knitter.
Who is Mariah?
Before Discovery Hall was built in 2016, the Geology Department was in this building.
What is Lind Hall?
The prominent mountain peak visible to the north of Campus, and the best mountain ever.
What is Mt. Stuart?
#bajabc
The largest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi?
A rock made up of Olivine, ortho- and/or clinopyroxene, and possibly spinel ± garnet ± plagioclase
What is peridotite?
Bonus: 100 if you wrote lherzolite.
This officer's favorite television program is the WA-set Twin Peaks.
Who is Faith?
Once populated by Political Science, you WILL not have a class in this building because they just tore it down.
What is Ferrell Hall?
A beautiful result of "uplift intensifies erosion (T-shirt slogan!)," State Route 821 takes travellers to Selah through these features of the Yakima River.
Bonus: The name of the largest one.
What are entrenched meanders?
50 pts: What is Beavertail bend?
#beavertailbend
The Author of Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Shelley?
Fun fact: Mt. Tambora story.
The two main minerals in Eclogite.
What are garnet and Omphacite (Na-rich pyroxene)?
Half credit for just 1.
This officer wrote and directed a musical in High School.
Who is Indigo?
(it's not really watchable)
A Geology professor from 1969 to 1997, this professor was known as Sweet Old Bob (abbr. SOB)
Who is Dr. Robert D. Bentley?
A common feature of this type of river, the arrows point out this feature (2 part question) in the Yakima River near Mabton.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PdJjSJGW-eV2PPwiFeCgSB4PJixZoSkpJ91hUjiozT0/edit?usp=sharing
What are Oxbow lakes?
The Father of Geology.
Bonus points: His famous unconformity.
Who is James Hutton?
What is Siccar Point?
#sorryDarwin #sorryLyell #sorryChris #sorryNick
#uniformitarianism
#presentisthekeytothepast
This mineral, common in all rock types, and usually grey-to-white in hand sample, is shown in thin section.
Bonus points for a specific texture(s)
What is plagioclase feldspar?
#mfwplag
100 for each bonus texture
This officer is 15 years older than their sibling.
Who is Raelee?
Inscribed on the answer to the $100 dollar clue, this was the original name of CWU, from 1891 to 1937.
What is the Washington State Normal School?
The Missoula Flood erosional feature in the Quincy Basin quite near where we collected this rock.
BONUS: The sample could be described by one of these names (just one is fine).
What is Frenchman Coulee?
Acceptable names: Opal, opalised diatomaceous earth, the Lmuma member, the Quincy Member, diatomite. 200 pts.
The Tallest Point in the contiguous United States.
What is Mt. Whitney (4,421 m)?
Fun Fact: the lowest place in North America (Badwater Basin in Death Valley, 282 m below sea level) is only about 3 miles away!
#sorryAK #sorryHI