Channeled Scablands - Quiz
A) Interconnected relict and dry flood channels, coulees, cataracts, and flat-lying basalt flows B) Glacial moraines and deep U-shaped alpine valleys C) Rolling hills of deep fertile soil and dense forests D) Active volcanic calderas and lava tubes
A) Northeastern part B) Southwestern part C) Southeastern part D) Northwestern part
A) Exactly 5 B) Around 12 C) More than 40 D) Only 1
A) Rapid melting of local mountain glaciers B) A large glacial lake breaking through its ice dam C) Tectonic plate shifts and massive earthquakes D) Prolonged heavy rainfall over several decades
A) Holocene epoch B) Pleistocene epoch C) Cretaceous epoch D) Miocene epoch
A) Between 18,200 and 14,000 years ago B) Between 50,000 and 45,000 years ago C) Between 1 million and 800,000 years ago D) Between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago
A) Palouse loess B) Sandstone dunes C) Granite bedrock D) Alluvial clay deposits
A) J Harlen Bretz B) The Penrose committee C) The Geological Society of America D) J. T. Pardee
A) 11 km B) 3 km C) 75 km D) 30 km
A) They show evidence of ancient extraterrestrial impacts B) They contain meteorites from Mars C) Their basalt matches the composition of lunar maria D) They are perhaps the best terrestrial analog of Martian outflow channels
A) 5,000 cubic miles B) 500,000 cubic miles C) 50 cubic miles D) 500 cubic miles
A) Catastrophist creationist theories B) Uniformitarian theories C) Glacial scraping theories D) Extraterrestrial impact theories
A) An anonymous reviewer B) A planetary scientist from NASA C) J. T. Pardee D) J Harlen Bretz himself
A) Lake Missoula B) Lake Agassiz C) Lake Bonneville D) Lake Lahontan
A) Radiocarbon dating B) Magnetostratigraphy C) Open-channel hydraulics D) Seismic tomography
A) Wollaston Medal B) Vaughan CCS Medal C) Penrose Medal D) Hayden Memorial Geological Award
A) Rectangular cross section B) V-shaped cross section C) U-shaped cross section D) Circular cross section
A) 100 and 500 square miles B) 1,500 and 2,000 square miles C) 10,000 and 15,000 square miles D) 50,000 and 70,000 square miles
A) An entrance in the south and an exit in the north B) A closed basin with no external exit C) An entrance in the northeast and an exit in the southwest D) A radial drainage pattern originating from a central peak
A) Greenland ice sheet B) Patagonian ice sheet C) Laurentide ice sheet D) Cordilleran ice sheet
A) A single straight linear trench B) Anastomosing, or braided, appearance C) A grid-like rectangular matrix D) A series of concentric rings
A) Exactly 10,000 years ago B) Within the last 5,000 years C) Sometime before 1.5 million years ago D) During the Holocene epoch
A) Only a few centimeters high B) Microscopic ridges in the basalt C) Between 100 and 200 feet high D) Between 3 and 49 feet high
A) Tsunamis B) Whirlpools C) Kolks D) Eddies
A) Volcanic bombs ejected during basalt eruptions B) Small pebbles polished smooth by river currents C) Sedimentary layers formed by windblown dust D) Large boulders that rafted on glaciers and were deposited by glacial outburst flooding
A) Marjorie Burns B) H. T. Smith C) J Harlen Bretz D) John Soennichsen
A) 0-1086-623053 B) 978-1-57061-505-4 C) 0-1130-0016-7 D) 0-88192-215-3
A) 0-1130-0016-7 B) 978-1-57061-505-4 C) 0-88192-215-3 D) 0-1086-623179
A) 1956 B) 1923 C) 1986 D) 1925
A) Sasquatch Books B) Timber Press C) Geological Society of America D) Journal of Geology
A) Seattle, Washington B) Washington, D.C. C) Portland, Oregon D) Chicago, Illinois
A) Volume 31, issue 2 B) Volume 33, issue 2 C) Volume 67, issue 8 D) Volume 31, issue 8
A) 957–1049 B) 1–50 C) 617–649 D) 97–115, 236–259 |
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