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Questions for the fifth quiz
From AFW (pp 115 – 131)
When did Wegner publish his essay Die Enstehung der Kontinente und die Ozeane?
How did explain that the continents moved?
How was this explanation received?
What happened to Wegner’s reputation for the next 50 years or so?
What did the paleomagnetic data suggest had happened to India?
Are plate boundaries only in the middle of oceans?
Are the plates ‘thin and rigid’ or ‘fat and plastic’?
Do plates all move at the same speed and in the same direction?
What is created where plates separate?
What happens when plates collide?
What is a trench and what is happening at trenches?
Which is most dense, ocean crust or continental crust?
What happens when oceanic crust and continental crust collide?
What kind of rock is found at the summit of Mt Everest?
What happens to some of the crust when seafloor is subducted into a trench?
Where do we now find ‘a large part of the rocky Mountains’?
What is the geologic name for the ‘Hersey Kisses’ spread out around the Pacific seafloor?
What geologic feature runs “like seams through every ocean and all around the globe”?
Why were seismic stations set up all around the globe in the 1950s?
Where do we find the deepest earthquakes?
What causes new seafloor at the midocean ridge to rise high and what causes it to
eventually subside?
How old are the oldest ocean rocks?
From TMCW: 97-99, Chapter 8
How was fossil collecting viewed in 18th Century Britain?
Which young Dorset woman was the most famous fossil collector?
Which are some of her most famous finds?
What was Ethelred Bennet’s specialty?
What did the Reverend George Young find?
What acute moral dilemmas did fossils pose for this member of the clergy?
How did he reconcile the possibility of animal extinctions?
What did he think of Darwin’s theory?
What was Smith’s reaction to the work of the Reverend Joseph Townsend/
Which sedimentary rocks were the most difficult for Smith to differentiate?
What were conditions like in England (Somerset) during the Lower and Middle Jurassic?
What was the name of the Sea?
Smith began to realize that the stones may have the same color, chemistry, and grain size,
but that ……
Did he see fossils that were peculiar to one bed repeated in beds above or below it?
How could he “positively and invariably” identify a rock?
What did he think when he found the same fossils in rocks at different locations?
When and where did he first put his impressions down on paper?