NOTE: The exam will test you on all material
covered through the previous class on rock deformation.
The exam will consist of 25-50 questions, some centered
on diagrams.
All questions will be true-false or multiple choice.
Calculators are not needed.
It will cover the following:
- Material on the Web site through Class 7.
- Lecture material, which substantially overlaps Web material
The exam will require at least a basic knowledge of the
following::
- Geography:
- names and locations of ocean basins
- names and locations of major continents
- names and locations of major plates
- names and locations of major geologic provinces in the western U.S.
- familiarity with topographic profiles across the United States
- The earth's interior
- the earth's principal layers
- their composition and material properties (e.g. fluid,
solid)
- their approximate thicknesses
- Plate tectonics
- definition of the theory
- definition of plates
- relationship to earthquakes
- types of plate boundaries
- How is plate convergence accommodated?
- typical rates of plate motion
- Rocks and the rock cycle
- know major categories of rocks
- definition of minerals and other terms highlighted in Web notes
- subdivisions of sedimentary and igneous rocks
- understand concepts of rock cycle and natural processes that are involved
- Folding and faulting
- brittle and ductile deformation
- fold type recognition
- fault types
- definitions of foot wall and hanging wall
- mechanisms for mountain building