Friday, August 19, 2011

GeoJeopardy! Fridays #60

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because school is back on!!!

- Period -

The rocks of the Carboniferous period provide the Earth with this, some of it bituminous

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The Cenozoic's Tertiary period is logically followed by this period

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 As evidenced by Dover, England, the Cretaceous period's name derives from this type of limestone

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Meaning "all Earth" in Greek, this hypothetical supercontinent tore apart during the Triassic period

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A period is one of 4 major units of geologic time; these are the other 3, & they all start with "E"

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