Rocks
These are the three rock types in the rock cycle.
What is Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic?
Name this mineral: SiO2.
What is quartz?
These are the three periods that non-avian dinosaurs lived (oldest to youngest).
What are the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous?
This is the geologic feature that Fort Lewis is on.
What is a glacial moraine?
Name the professor who says, "Goodness gracious its micaceous!"
Who is Gary Gianniny?
This US state has the most earthquakes. Double Jeopardy if you can guess how many they have annually!
What is Alaska and 10,000 earthquakes?
Obsidian is a mineral (True or False).
What is false?
These fossils can be found, and collected, around Durango.
What are brachiopods, crinoids, ammonites, coral, and sponges?
Name the oldest formation in Durango. Double Jeopardy if you include the age!
What is the Irving Formation and 1.8 billion years old?
This professor once called quartz a "culturally diverse cookie".
Who is David Gonzales?
Name this rock including what composition it has.
What is a felsic granite?
Biotite and mica are a part of this class of minerals.
What is a phyllosilicate?
This fossil plant gave the name to the only decommissioned National Monument in US history.
What is a fossil cycad (Fossil Cycad National Monument from 1922-1957)?
This is the name of a local geologic formation from the Upper Triassic.
What is the Chinle Formation?
This professor teaches GIS courses. Double Jeopardy if you can name more than one!
Who is Alan Kasprak and Nicole Wagner?
This is how limestone is formed.
What is deposition of shelled marine organisms?
The International Mineralogical Association has named this many types of minerals as of 2020.
Name which one of these animals is not an Archosaur: a bird, a turtle, a dinosaur, or a crocodile. Double Jeopardy if you know what an Archosaur is!
What is a turtle and Archosaurs are crocodiles, birds, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and their descendants?
What is the Laramide Orogeny?
This professor loves mitigation and snow hydrology.
Who is Andy Gleason?
This type of soil does not include any rock particles.
What is peat?
Name the chemical formula of augite. Double Jeopardy if you list its class!
What is (Ca, Na) (Mg, Fe, Al, Ti) (Si, Al)2 O6 and Pyroxene group?
Arctisorex polaris is a fossil shrew known from Ellesmere Island, Canada and it is the only frugivorous shrew. This is what its name translates to.
What is "The Arctic Shrew from the Pole"?
Smelter Mountain is named after the smelter in downtown Durango that used to process this mineral.
What is Uranium?
This professor teaches structural geology and studied in Switzerland.
Who is Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle?