Name ______________________________

Read Wicander and Monroe, Chapters 10 and 11 (35.pdf and 36.pdf) and answer the following questions.

Chapter 10

1. The craton can be divided into two components:

a a mobile belt and subcraton d. a shield and a platform

b. a sub-craton and a platform e. none of the above

c. a platform and mobile belt

2. Widespread shallow seas that cover the continents are called ______________________ .

3. Name the six continental landmasses of the Early Paleozoic.

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4. Large scale lithostratigraphic units bounded by transgrssive-regressive unconformities are called:

a. cratonic sequences d. supergroups

b. mobile belts e. cratonic unconformities

c. facies

5. The first major transgression onto the North American continent is recorded in rocks of the ______________________ sequence.

6. By Late Cambrian most of North America was covered by epeiric seas with the exception of a highland known as the ______________________ .

7. The Saint Peter Sandstone was laid down during the transgression of the ______________________ sea.

8. The formation of thick evaporite sequences surrounded by reef deposits is related to:

a. evolution of organisms that secrete evaporite minerals

b. restricted circulation in the basin

c. influx of very saline waters through the reef structure

d. submarine hydrothermal activity

e. all of the above.

9. The ______________________ orogeny in Europe is a mirror of the Taconic and Acadian orogenies in North America.

10. Erosion of the Taconic Highlands resulted in the development of a clastic wedge called the ______________________ .

Chapter 11

11. With movement of Gondwana over the South Pole, extensive glaciation occurred during the:

a. Pennsylvanian d. Silurian

b. Permian e. none of the above

c. Devonian

12. In North America, the time break between Mississippian and Pennsylvanian Periods is marked by an ______________________ .

13. Pennsylvanian rocks have a characteristic cyclical deposition of marine and non-marine sediments called ______________________ .

14. The Antler orogeny was caused by the collision of an ______________________ with the Western margin of north America.

15. Which of the following occurred during the Devonian?

a. development of rift basins d. the Acadian orogeny

b. breakup of Pangaea e. widespread glaciation

c. formation of the Rocky Mountains

16. Absolute ages for the Acadian orogeny have been obtained from:

a. index fossil assemblages d. all of the above

b. radiometric ages of metamorphic rocks e. B and C above

c. radiometric ages of igneous rocks

17. The Catskill Delta is associated with the ______________________ orogeny.

18. During the Pennsylvanian and Permian the ___________________ orogeny produced folding and thrust faulting in the New York to Alabama region.

19. At the end of the Permian, the suture between Gondwana and Laurasia was marked by a continuous mountain chain with the following three mobile belts:

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