Friday, June 03, 2011

GeoJeopardy! Fridays #49

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because it's a nice day out.

- Geology -

A placer is a deposit of sand containing metals such as this, which brought an influx to Placer County, California

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A cauldron subsidence is when a mass of solid rock sinks into a pool of this subterranean molten rock

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In geology, BYO isn't on a faculty party invitation; it stands for this, in Canada's Acasta Gneiss, about 4 BYO

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In the mountain type of this, rock projects above the frozen stuff

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William Smith's 1815 map "of New England and Wales" showed these rock layers in different colors

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