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| Danish physician, Principle of Lateral Continuity |
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| fossils the result of the "plastic virtue" of rocks |
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| visited Milledgeville, studied erosion of farmland |
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| developed correlation technique of using index fossils |
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| comparative anatomist, proponent of Catastrophism |
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| authored "On the Origin of Species" |
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| estimated Earth's age using ocean salinity |
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| concluded that all of Earth's rocks precipitated from a great ocean |
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| estimated Earth's age counting Biblical generations |
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| co-discoverer of radioactivity |
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| Greek-Earth floats in space |
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| concluded that shell in Apennine Mts. were not flood transported |
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| also known as Agricola, authered "De Natura Fossilium" |
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| first to recognize unconformities in Scotland |
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| Greek, first to interpret fossils as evidence of past life |
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| an unconformity in which flat-lying sedimentary rocks lie above eroded igneous rocks |
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| an unconformity in which an erosional surface in flat-lying strata is overlain by flat-lying beds |
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| Principle of Uniformitarianism - actualism |
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| Dictates that the physical and chemical laws that govern nature in the present also existed in the past |
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| an unconformity in which tilted beds are overlain by flat-lying beds |
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| an unconformity in which flat-lying beds of greatly different ages are juxtaposed |
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| The branch of geology dealing with the determination of the age of rock layers |
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| ____ time compares sequences and determines oldes to youngest |
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| using the fossil record, at best we prolly know only ___ % of the species that have ever lived |
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| the process by which physical and chemical forces at or near earths surface cause rocks to break down is called |
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| the process through which sediments are changed to stone is known as |
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| school of thougt that believed all rocks had formed from the precipitation of minerals to seawater |
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| the dates on the Geologic TIme Scale are calculated using |
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| which of the following is most resistant to physical and chemical weathering? |
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| the most common and effective agent for transporting sediment is |
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| the most common and effective agent for transporting sediment is |
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| the most common and effective agent for transporting sediment is |
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| the process whereby dissolved mineral matter precipitates in the pore spaces of sediments is |
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| the upper limit of metamorphic temperatures is |
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| the point at which the rocks melt |
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| atoms of the same element that differ in their number of neutrons |
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| a nuclear event involving the release of energy |
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| the most ancient events in earths history fall within the ___ eon |
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| the eon is characterized by "evident life" |
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| The Era containing "ancient life" |
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| The Era containing "middle life" |
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| The Earth has a diameter of ___ miles |
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| Radiometric dating is most suitable for which rock type |
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| first to propose evolution in lineages |
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| evolution by natural selection |
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| fossil deposit with exceptional preservation |
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| survival of the fittest for human population |
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| stable continental interiors |
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| the study of the interaction of ancient organisms with their environments is called |
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| the part of systematics in which names are applied to organisms |
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| the part of a continent where basement rocks are covered by relatively flatlying sedimentary rocks |
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| ___ crust is less dense than ___ crust |
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| Earth's magnetic field is most likely due to the flow of the |
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| In a ___ fault, the hanging wall drops below the footwall |
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| similar morphological structures with different appearance are said to be ___ structures |
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| mappable, genetically related rock units |
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| that portion of the Earhts interior that is interpreted to be "plastically deforming" |
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| large areas of the continental landmasses where crystalline rocks are exposed |
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| that part of systematics in which organisms are placed into a large-scale retrieval system |
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| in a ___ fault, the hanging wall rises above the footwall |
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| linear stretches of deformed rocks around the edges of continental landmasses |
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| a good example of a land animal with a distribution that indicates past connections between continents |
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| that part of systematics in which evolutionary histories are determined |
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| phylogenetic reconstructions |
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| different morphological structures with similar functions are said to be ___ structures |
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| rocks representing a particular aspect of a complex depositional environment |
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| in a ___ falut the hanging wall slides horizontally by the footwall |
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| ocean to ocean convergance |
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| continent to continent convergance |
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| "hig-saw puzzle" fit of continents |
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| supercontinent-Gondwanaland |
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| divergence within continental crust |
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| continents do not "plow" through ocean crust |
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| divergence within oceanic crust |
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| the Archean began 3.96 billion years ago marked by the appearance of |
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| the pattern on magnetic stripes on the ocean floor east of the mid-Atlantic ridge is ___ the pattern west of the ridge |
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| Earth's first oceans formed during the |
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| THe various parts of cratonic shields were welded together over |
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| Splinters of oceanic crust stuck to continental crust over subduction zones |
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| Earth's primary differentiation was completed during the |
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| Physicists estimate that Earth's moon formed from impact debris approximately ___ years ago |
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| Granite is the common continental rock beginning |
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| The name of the supercontinent that formed at the end of the Mesozoic |
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All of the following are characteristic of convergent boundaries EXCEPT:
subduction zones, melanges, rifts, island arcs, trenches, volcanoes, metamorphism |
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| the name of the supercontinent that formed during the early Proterozoic |
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| The volcanoes of Hawaii form as the Pacific Plate moves over a |
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| a vertical succession of sandstone, shale and limestone represent a |
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| eon that includes Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Eras |
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| Stromatolites are composed primarily of layers of ___ and are the secretions of |
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| calcium carbonate/ cyanobacteria |
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| Physicists estimate the age of the Universe to be |
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| Astronomers use the ___ shift as evidence that stars are moving away from the center of the Universe |
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| As one moves from the mid-Atlantic ridge towards NA, the age of the sea-floor rocks |
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| Earth's primordial atmosphere is believed to have originated primarily from |
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| Physicists estimate the age of the Solar System to be |
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| The asthenosphere is in the |
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| Earth's magnetic field is most likely due to the flow of the |
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| The oldest continental crust on earth is found in |
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| The name of the supercontinent that formed at the end of the PRecambrian |
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