Geol Board Exam part 1 UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Geol Board Exam part 1 UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
bysmalith - CORRECT ANSWER- These are sills that have thickened to produce domes,
wherein the doming arches the overlying rocks, and consequently faulted
exfoliation - CORRECT ANSWER- Originally unjointed rocks such as g...
Geol Board Exam part 1 UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
bysmalith - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔These are sills that have thickened to produce domes,
wherein the doming arches the overlying rocks, and consequently faulted
exfoliation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Originally unjointed rocks such as granitoid rocks
experiencing compression parallel to their length producesa thin, curved, generally convex
upwards shells paralleling the topography
triassic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔First appearance of Scleractinian Corals
sequence - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It is a relatively conformable succession of genetically
related strata, bounded at the top and base byunconformities and correlative conformities
knickpoint - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔These refers to a sharp change in channel slope
resulting from differential rates of erosion above and below
Equatorial gradient - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Milankovitch theory is based on 3 cyclical
alterations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
This is not one of the cycles:
- The shape of Earth's orbit, known as ECCENTRICITY
- The angle Earth's axis is tilted with respect to Earth's orbital plane, known as OBLIQUITY
- The earth's orbital tilt range known as EQUATORIAL GRADIENT
- The direction Earth's axis of rotation is pointed, known as PRECESSION
Falling Stage Systems Tract - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Formation of incised valleys occur
during:
,eocene - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The Syn-rift deposits in offshore Northwest Palawan
consisting of marine deposits are of what age?
devonian - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It is considered as the "Age of the Fishes"
2250km - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What is the thickness of the outer core?
triassic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The first mammals appeared during the:
410 to 660 km - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The earth's transition zone is found at what
depth?
thapocoenosis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This refers to the death assemblage where not all
species present in the community are represented as fossils, and not all the fossil species
within the assemblage lived in the community
Pliocene, miocene - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Neogene is composed of:
E horizon (zone of eluvation and leaching) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This refers to the
soil horizon which has been significantly leached of its mineral and/or organic content,
leaving a pale layer largely composed of silicates. It is present only in older, well developed
soils.
Charles Lapworth - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The Cambrian is the first geological period of
the Paleozoic Era, is succeeded by the Ordovician. WHO established this period?
40,000 years - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What is the period of the change in the earth's
obliquity?
avulsion - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Refers to the sudden change in the course of a river
leading to a section of abandoned channel, a section of new channel, and a segment of higher
land (part of the floodplain) between them
,normal fault - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It is a type of fault where the minimum stress is
horizontal
Jimmy Carter - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Which of the following is NOT carved in Mt.
Rushmore in Black Hills of South Dakota?
George Washington
Jimmy Carter
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Agusan-Davao Basin - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In the Philippines, there are ten individual
basins that can be distinguished, the thickness of which range from 4,000 to 12,000 meters,
while their surface area is between 1 million m2 and 4.7 million m2. What is the thickest
sedimentary basin whose fill reaches up to 12,000 m?
erosion - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Refer to various ways by which the mobile agencies
obtain and remove rock debris.
sumatra - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In December 26, 2004, a massive undersea earthquake
of magnitude 9.1 occurred claiming more than 230,000 lives. Where did this earthquake
occur?
true - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔T or F: Horse fault does not exhibit tensional force
2.9 to 3.1 g/cm3 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The average density of the oceanic crust is:
oligocene - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The South China Sea Basin, according to Taylor and
Hayes (1980, 1983) belongs to the Continental domain basin type, wherein the mechanism of
opening is independent of any other processes. In this model, opening is preceded by rifting
in a continental domain (typical example: Atlantic Ocean). When did south china sea started
opening?
, dreikanter - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It is a doubly pointed ventifact, having three curved
faces intersecting in three sharp edges, resembling the shape of a Brazil nut.
3 million years - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Quaternary is approximately how many years?
july 1990 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔When was the 7.8 magnitude earthquake along the
Digdig segment of the Philippine Fault that devastated cities in Luzon such as Baguio City
spit - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It is an elongated ridge of sand that projects from the land
into the mouth of an adjacent bay.
true - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔t or f
Grabens are hanging walls and horsts are foot walls.
false - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔t or f
frost wedging is a chemical weathering process
drumlin - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔These are streamlined, asymmetrical hills composed of
till, ranging in height from 15 to 60m and in length from 40 to 80 m.
eastern panay-sibala formation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Sibala Formation, a sequence of
basaltic to andesitic lava flows with interbeds of coarse pyroclastic rocks and fine tuff and
sandstone, is the basement rock in which locality?
dendritic pattern - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔These are drainage pattern common on
horizontally bedded sedimentary rocks or massive igneous/metamorphic rocks.
It separates transgressive units from above with regressive units from below. - regressive
(above), transgressive (below) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Start of relative sea-level fall
results in subaerial erosion as rivers incise and form an unconformity. This is followed by
continued relative sea level fall that deposits submarine fans at the base of the continental
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