Minerals
The hardest mineral
What is diamond?
This is the approximate age of the Earth
What is 4.5 billion years old?
A type of rock formed by the altercation of a previous rock when subjected to high temperatures, high pressures, and/or hydrothermal fluids
What are metamorphic rocks?
What is oxygen?
The president of the undergraduate Geology Club
Who is Jack?
Crystalline formations found on cave ceilings
What are stalactites?
This period started 358.9 Ma and had large coal deposits
What is the Carboniferous?
This "B" hill has steep sides and a flat top
What is a butte?
The Peru-Chilean Trench is this type of fault boundary
What is a convergent plate boundary?
A victim of premature death via asbestos
Who is Blake?
The element responsible for the red color in rubies
What is chromium?
The Stegosaurus lived during this period
What is the Jurassic Period?
What is breccia?
This "fire of the desert" is the national gemstone of Australia
What is opal?
Volcanos are named after this Roman god of fire
Who is Vulcan?
The chemical formula of dolomite
What is CaMg(CO3)2?
This era of the Proterozoic eon saw the development of "Snowball Earth"
What is the Neoproterozoic?
This formation is made after the collapse of land during/after a volcanic eruption
In this decade, the theory of Plate Tectonics became widely accepted
What is the 1960s?
The Department Chair of Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate
Who is Kristie Franz?
The rarest mineral on Earth, kyawthuite, was found in this country
What is Myanmar?
This period of the Cenozoic Era saw the evolution of the first primates
What is the Paleogene?
The only rock that floats in water
This is the name of the boundary between the crust and the mantle
What is the Moho?
The founding father of modern geology
Who is James Hutton?