GeoJeopardy! Fridays

It is that time again for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because those of us in school need a distraction from Finals Week.

- Official State Dinosaurs & Fossils -

The Triceratops found in this state's Black Hills won official fossil status

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Montana's state fossil, the Maiasaura, had this type of mouth, like the platypus

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Haddonfield, in this Eastern state, was the site of the first "nearly complete" dinosaur find - a Hadrosaurus
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The teeth from Maryland's Astrodon were cut open in 1858 & revealed this pattern, hence its name

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Saurophaganax was named this state's official fossil in 2000 & you can see one at the Sam Noble Museum in Norman

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All the answers as well as any other previous GeoJeopardy! questions can be found over at my website by clicking this link.

Geology News of the Day

Apparently the sealevel rise following the melting of the ice sheets was not as steady as originally though. Looks like it could have jumped up to 2.5 meters/century.

Global Sea-Level Rise at the End of the Last Ice Age Interrupted by Rapid 'Jumps'

Geology News of the Day

Scientists find that not everything is as simple as we thought. Apparently life can form even in the absence of life forming minerals.

Arsenic-munching germ redefines "life as we know it"

GeoJeopardy! Fridays

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because why not.

- The Earth -

The modified Mercalli scale ranks these 1-12: 1 - not felt except by few, 12 - total destruction

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We're in the holocene epoch of the quaternary period of the Cenozoic one of these

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Basalt is an igneous rock & rock salt is this type

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William Smith was the 1st to date rocks using these found within them

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The stratosphere includes this layer of the atmosphere that absorbs ultraviolet light

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All the answers as well as any other previous GeoJeopardy! questions can be found over at my website by clicking this link.

Geological Literature QotW

I have another Quote of the Week for ya from my readings. This one I think is self explanatory.

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"Although we have referred to relatively few examples, and with differing degrees of confidence, our model for climate distribution of shallow marine trace fossils appears to be robust."

As a peer of mine put it, "What?"

Goldring, R., Cadee, G.C., D'Alessandro, A., de Gibert, J.M., Jenkins, R., & Pollard, J.E., 2004, Climatic control of trace fossil distribution in the marine realm: In McIlroy, D., Ed., The application of ichnology to palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic analysis: Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 228:77-92.

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