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Name: _____________________________________________ Date: _________________ Period: ________ LAB# ____ Mapping the Earth: An ESRT Lab Activity Directions: Use the reference tables shown below to answer the corresponding questions. modified from GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 1989 ara River ag Earth Science Reference Tables — 2001 Edition Generalized Bedrock Geology of New York State Ni N GEOLOGICAL PERIODS AND ERAS IN NEW YORK CRETACEOUS, TERTIARY, PLEISTOCENE (Epoch) weakly consolidated to unconsolidated gravels, sands, and clays LATE TRIASSIC and EARLY JURASSIC conglomerates, red sandstones, red shales, and diabase (in Palisades Sill) PENNSYLVANIAN and MISSISSIPPIAN conglomerates, sandstones, and shales DEVONIAN limestones, shales, sandstones, and conglomerates Silurian also contains salt, gypsum, and hematite. SILURIAN ORDOVICIAN CAMBRIAN } } limestones, shales, sandstones, and dolostones CAMBRIAN and EARLY ORDOVICIAN sandstones and dolostones Moderately to intensely metamorphosed east of the Hudson River. CAMBRIAN and ORDOVICIAN (undifferentiated) quartzites, dolostones, marbles, and schists Intensely metamorphosed; includes portions of the Taconic Sequence and Cortlandt Complex. TACONIC SEQUENCE sandstones, shales, and slates Slightly to intensely metamorphosed rocks of CAMBRIAN through MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN ages. MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC gneisses, quartzites, and marbles Lines are generalized structure trends. Intensely Metamorphosed Rocks (regional metamorphism about 1,000 m.y.a.) MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC anorthositic rocks } } } Dominantly Sedimentary Origin NG LO O UND AND S ISL Dominantly Metamorphosed Rocks 3 1. What are the coordinates of the following locations in New York State? Binghampton: _____________________ Syracuse: ________________________ Slide Mountain: ____________________ Albany: __________________________ Plattsburg: _______________________ Massena: ________________________ 2. When viewed from Oswego, how high will Polaris appear in the sky? _____________________________ 3. Will the North Star be higher in the sky when viewed from Riverhead or Old Forge? Explain. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. In which city would Polaris appear at an altitude of 42 degrees? _________________________________ 5. At approximately what latitude do New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut meet? ________________ Sammartano 2005 Name: _____________________________________________ Date: _________________ Period: ________ Surface Ocean Currents 6. What are the coordinates of the big “A’s” of the following continents as shown on the map? Antarctica: _____________________________ South America: __________________________ Australia: _______________________________ North America: __________________________ Africa: _________________________________ Asia: __________________________________ 7. If your ship is caught in the West Wind Drift ocean current, and you observe the sun to be at it’s highest point in the sky at the same moment as you chronometer reads 4:00am, the time at the Prime Meridian, what is your longitude? ___________________________________________________________________ 8. Approximately how many degrees of longitude wide is Africa? ___________________________________ 9. Between what latitudes is the West Wind Drift found? _________________________________________ 10. Between what latitudes is the Gulf Stream found? ___________________________________________ 11. How will the altitude of the North Star change as you travel north from the “A” in Africa to the “E” in Europe? _______________________________________________________________________________ Sammartano 2005 Name: _____________________________________________ Date: _________________ Period: ________ Tectonic Plates Philippine Plate Mid-Atlantic Rid ge Fiji Plate Sandwich Plate overriding plate KEY: 12. What are the coordinates of the following subductingfeatures shown on the map above? Transform Plate Boundary Divergent Plate Boundary (usually broken by transform faults along mid-ocean ridges) plate (Transform Fault) Convergent Plate Boundary Hawaii Hot Spot: ___________________________ (Subduction Zone) Galapagos Hot Spot: ________________________ Sandwich Plate:Ridge ____________________________ Mid-Ocean Mariana Trench: ____________________________ Canary Islands Hot Spot: _____________________ San Andreas Fault: __________________________ Complex or Uncertain Plate Boundary Relative Motion at Plate Boundary Mantle Hot Spot NOTE: Not all plates and boundaries are shown. 13. What would the altitude of Polaris be as viewed from the Iceland Hot Spot? _______________________ 14. What feature will you pass over as you travel south from 60N 180W to 40N 160W? _________________ 15. The East African Rift extends north and south between what latitudes? __________________________ 16. From which hot spot would you view Polaris at an altitude of 45 degrees? ________________________ 17. Which three tectonic plates are found along the Prime Meridian? 1. ______________________________ 2. ______________________________ 3. ______________________________ Good Job! Sammartano 2005 Name: _____________________________________________ Date: _________________ Period: ________ Sammartano 2005
