Tectonics
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Divergent, convergent, and transform
Rocks that have been transported by a glacier.
Erratics
The 3 types of volcanoes.
Shield, cinder cone, and stratovolcano
The tongue twister “Sally sells seashells by the seashore” is said to be based on this paleontologist.
Mary Anning
This professor pronounces source as "sauce"
Dr. John Peck
This type of plate boundary creates new ocean floor.
Divergent
The loss of glacial ice by melting.
Ablation
Tuff, scoria, vesicular basalt, and pumice have this texture.
Pyroclastic
The gender wage gap has narrowed from 72% in 2016 to what percentage?
74%
This professor has the same last name as an east coast orogeny
Dr. Caleb Brolyoke
The Andes Mountains of South America are an example of this type of plate boundary.
Convergent (ocean-continent)
A tear shaped collection of till.
Drumlin
The 3 intrusive textures of igneous rocks.
Pegmatic, phaneritic, and porphyritic
Metaphor used to describe the underrepresentation of women in stem before undergrad.
Leaky pipline
This professor's shoe style might be better than all of ours...
Dr. John Senko
The San Andres Fault is this type of plate boundary.
Transform
Sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.
Loess
The 3 extrusive textures of igneous rocks.
Aphanitic, vesicular, pyroclastic (and glassy)
The 1st women to work for the United States Geological Survey in 1901.
Florence Bascom
This professor is different from all the rest....
Dr. Molly Witter
Name the 7 major continental plates.
Pacific, Eurasian, North American, Indian Australian, South American and the Nazca
Poorly sorted sediment that contains grain sizes from clay to boulders.
Diamict
The 3 types of lava.
Basaltic, andesitic, and rhyolitic
The first woman to land on the moon
There hasn't been any!
This professor studies geologic structure where the most people in the U.S. go missing
Dr. Ira Sasowsky