Introduction
1. Overview of Physical Geology
2. Rock Identification Methods
Geologic Principles
3.

Maps & Navigation
Geologic Maps
4. Igneous Rocks
Magmatic Deposits
5. Plutonic-Related Deposits
Air Photos
6. Volcanic Rocks
Volcanic-Related Deposits
7. Sedimentary Rocks
Low Temp. Deposits
GPS Navigation
8. Hydrothermal Veins&
Alteration
9. Metamorphic Rocks
Metamorphic Deposits
10.

Structural Geology
Structural Controls on
Mineralization
** Mid Term
11. Mechanical Erosion
Placer Deposits
12. Geochemical Sampling Methods
13. Adit/Trench Mapping
Geochemical Methods
14. Geophysical Methods
15. Project Planning
Claim Staking
16. Exploration Drilling
Methods
** Final Exam

 

Class 10 - Quiz

1.  Which of the following is the most likely to be a result of plastic deformation?

A.  a joint set
B.  a reverse fault
C.  a recumbent fold
D.  a breccia zone

2.  If the fold axis of a syncline strikes northeast, and I am standing on the southeast limb, which direction would I find younger rocks?

A.  southeast
B.  northeast
C.  southwest
D.  northwest

3.  An overturned fold with a south-dipping axial plane might best be explained by _____________.

A.  vertical tectonics
B.  compressional forces from the south
C.  compressional forces from the west
D.  east-west shearing

4.   Horizontal slickensides on a vertical fault plane suggest it is a _______________ fault.

A.  normal fault
B.  reverse fault
C.  oblique slip fault
D.  strike-slip fault

5.  A gold-quartz vein strikes due north and dips 60 degrees west.  The vein is cut off by an east-west vertical fault which is downdropped to the north.  Where is the continuation of the vein on the north side of the fault?

A. to the east
B. to the west
C. to the south
D. to the southwest

6.  Which of the following does not cause joints to form in rocks?

A.  cooling of volcanic rocks
B.  uplift and erosion
C.  folding
D.  oxidation

7.  Which of the following could explain the presence of a northeast-striking fractures?

A.  folds with northeast-trending axes
B.  folds with northwest-trending axes
C.  glaciation
D.  a subsurface pluton trending northwest-southeast

8.  Which setting is least likely to produce open fractures where veins could form?

A.  a thrust fault zone
B.  broad, open folds
C.  intrusion of a granite pluton and arching of the overlying rocks
D.  a series of normal faults

9.   Which is an example of a pre-mineral structural feature?

A.  a strike-slip fault which offsets a galena-quartz vein
B.  an anticlinal fold which deforms shale containing disseminated sphalerite
C.  a fault with breccia containing a matrix of quartz-arsenopyrite
D.  an overturned syncline containing a massive sulfide lens consisting of deformed pyrites

10.  Which of the following is not proof of faulting?

A.  breccia
B.  veining
C.  slickensides
D.  gouge