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Igneous, Metamorphic, or Sedimentary?
Mafic, intermediate, or felsic?
Which orogeny?
Erosional or depositional?
Water, air, or ice?
100
Granite
What is igneous?
100
Quartz
What is felsic?
100
Collision of Laurentia and Amazonia to form Rodinia
What is Grenville?
100
Alluvial fan
What is depositional?
100
The formation of this substance drives the thermohaline current
What is ice?
200
Andesite
What is igneous?
200
Basalt
What is mafic?
200
Collision of Avalonia (Avalon terrane) with Laurentia
What is Acadian?
200
Moraine
What is depositional
200
The circumpolar current develops in this substance
What is water?
300
Slate
What is metamorphic?
300
Pyroxene
What is mafic?
300
Collision of Africa and Laurentia to form Pangea
What is Alleghanian?
300
Cirque
What is erosional?
300
This substance rises at the equator and falls at ~20 degrees north and south as a result of heating and cooling.
What is air?
400
Shale
What is sedimentary?
400
Diorite
What is intermediate?
400
Collision of island arc with Laurentia about 500-440 mya
What is Taconic
400
Cut bank
What is erosional?
400
This material behaves as a non-Newtonian fluid
What is ice?
500
Quartzite
What is metamorphic?
500
Rhyolite
What is felsic?
500
Not an orogeny, but during what geologic era did three of these orogenies occur?
What is the Paleozoic?
500
Dominating processes in bedrock river systems
What is erosional
500
These two substances move and redistribute heat from the sun
What are water and air?