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