STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 2

Question 1

1st order reference surface

Answer 1

Bedding

Question 2

Types of Crossbeds

Answer 2

Tangential
Planar (non facing direction indicator)
Festoon
Trough

Question 3

Flute casts are common at the bottom of these beds

Answer 3

Turbidite

Question 4

Sed structures which are produced by small grains or fragment of organic matter or other material that is chemically different from surrounding mass of sediment the chemical difference may produce a spherical area of color change in an otherwise oxidized sed

Answer 4

Reduction spots

Question 5

Strain Indicators

Answer 5

1) Reduction spots
2) Fossils (bosy and inchno)
3) Mudcracks

Question 6

states that only those facies (environments) that once existed side by side can be observed vertically jusxtaposed

Answer 6

Walther’s Principle

Question 7

Bedded masses of matrix supported blocks

Answer 7

Olitostromes

Question 8

Not bedded masses of matrix supported blocks

Answer 8

Diamictites

Question 9

Characteritics of melanges

Answer 9

SHEARED MATRIX

Question 10

Heterogenous accumulation of blocks and smaller particles in deep water environments

Answer 10

Wildflysh

Question 11

This is a structure that can help distiingush an impact crater

Answer 11

Shatter Cone

Question 12

the impact crater which is said to be the reason of dinosaur exitinction

Answer 12

Chixculub 65 Ma