layers that are tilted at steep angles, horizontal or slightly tilted
What is rock strata?
100
sand, silt and pebbles are all small particles from
What is weathering?
100
What does limestone become when it undergoes metamorphism
What is limestone?
100
type of rock that is often light enough to float on water
What is pumice?
100
Formed from the remains of plant materials
What is sedimentary rocks?
200
rocks are formed when molten rock cools and hardens
What is igneous rocks?
200
the widespread destruction indicated by fossils and sedimentary rocks
What is world wide flood?
200
petroleum is usually found in _________________ rock formations.
What is sedimentary?
200
Rocks either formed from bonded rock fragments that have been transported by water or wind or from the precipitation of minerals from supersaturated water solutions.
What are sedimentary rocks
200
Fossils are only found in what type of rock
What is sedimentary rock?
300
Particles in conglomerate are ______________than the particles in siltstone.
What is larger?
300
Type of rock that appers to have changed from its original form
What is metamorphic?
300
Most geologist use the principle of_____________ in order to determine the order in which geologic events affected a particular location.
What is superposition?
300
deposits of halite the penetrate vertically through rock strata
What are salt domes?
300
Fossils used by evolutionist to detemine the age of rock strata are
What are index fossils?
400
rocks formed from minerals precipitated from water
What is nonclastic sedimentary rocks
400
after 200 years of searching, what discovery predicted by the theory of evolutionist not made
What is missing links - transistional forms- intermediate species
400
Living fossils do not cause a problem for ________________ scientist.
What is creationary?
400
formed from water-deposited layers of particles or materials
What is sedimentary rocks?
400
long masses of igneous rock formed from magma forced into vertical cracks of existing rock strata
What are Dikes?
500
A material in which another material, such as, sand, fossils, or crystals are embedded.
What is a matrix?
500
since the ocean is teaming with animals that quickly scavenge dead organisms, how could crude oil have formed from fossilized ocean-dwelling creatures
What is they had to be buried quickly to prevent scavenging
500
the gaseous form of fossil fuel
What is natural gas?
500
Metamorphism can result from exposure to what 3 things