Queens University GEOL 104 Final Exam Latest Update 2025-2026 Actual Exam 125 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+ Verified by Professor
Allochthonous - CORRECT ANSWER: Originated at a distance from its present position.
Angle of repose - CORRECT ANSWER: The steepest possible angle of a slope without collapse.Varies with material and grain size.
Anticline - CORRECT ANSWER: ^ shaped, unfolded sedimentary layers. Oldest strata is towards the centre.
Autochtonous - CORRECT ANSWER: Formed in its present position
Axial Plane - CORRECT ANSWER: Plane that marks the center of the fold.
Basal Sliding - CORRECT ANSWER: Water accumulating at the rock bed between the
ice to reduce friction.
Basin - CORRECT ANSWER: Downwarped circular features. Youngest rock is in the
centre.
Bergschrund - CORRECT ANSWER: A crevasse that forms between the flowing and
stagnant mountain ice.
Body Waves - CORRECT ANSWER: Can occur at inner and outer layers of the Earth 1 / 2
Brittle-Plastic Deformation - CORRECT ANSWER: Where glaciers have areas that
undergo plastic deformation at depths of ~60m, and brittle deformation above that.
Carbon Dating - CORRECT ANSWER: Uses properties of radiocarbon to determine the
age of an object.
Compressional Stress - CORRECT ANSWER: when a rock is pressed together into
itself
Conformable Contact - CORRECT ANSWER: No time gap between boundary surfaces
Continental Glacier - CORRECT ANSWER: Cover large areas of continental crust, only few exists in Antarctica and Greenland.
Convergent Boundary Seismicity - CORRECT ANSWER: Earthquakes can occur at
shallow, intermediate, or deep depths.
Possibly a result from the phase change of olivine to spinel (a denser material).
Craton - CORRECT ANSWER: Crust that has not been affected by orogeny for the last
- billion years.
Divided into two parts:
- Shields
- Cratonic platforms
Creep - CORRECT ANSWER: Sloe gradual downslope movement of regolith on a
slope.
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