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What gives the rock its characteristic pink color
What is K-feldspar?
100
The Beatle's performance at Red Rock took place this year
What is 1964?
100
Shows a missing piece of recorded geological history
What is an unconformity?
100
How well our sedimentary Red Rock is sorted
What is poorly sorted?
100
One location Dr. Moore has completed research at
What is Madagascar, India, South Dakota, Nebraska, or Montana?
200
This mineral indicates a rock was deposited close to its source
What is K-feldspar?
200
Age of rocks underlying Red Rock monoliths
What is 1.7 billion years?
200
Red Rock's unconformity where one type of rock was deposited on a pre-existing, different rock
What is nonconformity?
200
The process by which the sedimentary rock deposited
What are an alluvial fan and braided stream?
200
What is Justin's favorite rock?
What is serpentine?
300
Precipitated into the rock from existing ground water and acting as cement
What is hematite?
300
Age of Fossils found in Red Rock monoliths
What is 145-201 million years ago, the Jurassic Period?
300
The age gap shown by Red Rock's nonconformity
What is 1.5 billion years?
300
The age of deposition
What is 290-296 million years ago (late paleozoic)?
300
One fossil found in sedimentary rocks of Red Rock amphitheater?
What is a Plesiosaur?
400
The highest grade rock found in Red Rock amphitheater
What is gneiss?
400
The Period of the Red Rock formation
What is the Pennsylvanian Period?
400
The Orogen that caused the tilt of the Red Rock monoliths and what period it belonged to
What is the Laramide Orogen of the cretaceous period?
400
The largest clast size found in the Fountain Formation?
What is cobble size?
400
Who investigated several new mid-Cretaceous dinosaurian faunas from Montana, Idaho and Wyoming?
Who is Dr. Moore?
500
The three main sedimentary rock types found in Red Rock
What are conglomerates, sandstone, and arkose?
500
When the ancestral Rocky Mountain's were formed
What is 290-296 million years ago?
500
The tectonic cause of the Laramide Orogen and the Red Rock unconformity
What is a shallow subduction of plates west of North America?
500
The scale of the cross bedding of Red Rock
What is Dune scaled at 1-2 meters?
500
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What is The Stretch?