The crust in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona is stretching; therefore, fault movement in this region must be:

You’re looking at a fault trace in the field. You observe a polished surface, with linear grooves on it, and fine powder along it. In more technical terms, what are you seeing?

Identify the FALSE statement. Mountains don’t get infinitely high or exist forever because:

Identify the structure that makes this pattern of rock layers on the ground surface: parallel stripes, showing bilateral symmetry across a mid-line (hinge), with rock getting older as you move outward from the hinge. 

If you see small, angular fragments of shattered rock along a linear boundary between two masses of rock, you must be looking at:

Which of the following statements is FALSE? This diagram showsClick to view larger image.

Brittle deformation:

Seismic wave velocity is affected by each of the following EXCEPT:

A 200-km-thick, warm layer of mantle just above the core-mantle boundary and discovered by seismic tomography is called:

When the mass of water that an iceberg displaces is equal to the mass of the iceberg, it floats. This is an example of: