GEOL 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mudstone, Rhyolite, Basalt
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Refer to this figure for questions 1-3: this is a cross-sectional view of an outcrop. What is the name for the contact between the shale and sandstone: depositional, angular unconformity, disconformity, nonconformity, this is a cross-sectional view of an outcrop. What is the name for the contact between the mudstone and sandstone: depositional, angular unconformity, disconformity, nonconformity. Refer to this figure for questions 4 - 6: this is a cross-sectional view of an outcrop. What type of fault is this: normal, reverse/thrust, left-lateral strike-slip, right-lateral strike-slip, this is a cross-sectional view of an outcrop. Which is younger, the basalt layer or the fault: basalt layer, fault, this is a cross-sectional view of an outcrop. It defines the age of the rock layers. It reveals the order in which the rocks were originally deposited. _________: archean eon, hadean eon, proterozoic eon, paleozoic era, banded-iron formations formed in the proterozoic eon because of the abundance of iron and.
