Geotech Workshop 3 Quiz

Structural Geology (W3 topic) is concerned with...

• How large-scale rock shapes form, potentially resulting in defects such as joints and bedding planes

• Describing in-tact rock and defects such as joints and bedding planes in detail

Bedding planes apply to

• Sedimentary rocks

• Foliated metamorphic rocks

• BOTH sedimenary and foliated metamorphic rock

The gap in the rock next to the RED rectangle is a _____ and the gap next to the BLUE rectangle is a _____

• RED = joint, BLUE = joint

• RED = bedding plane, BLUE = bedding plane

• RED = joint, BLUE = bedding plane

• RED = bedding plane, BLUE = joint

Which type of rock would you NOT expect to find folding occuring in?

• Shale

• Sandstone (pure quartz)

• Gneiss

Which is NOT a type of unconformity?

• disconformity

• nonconformity

• anticonformity

Draw your favourite mineral