1.This question has not been answered completely Oldest know land animal are the
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Oldest know land animal are the:
A. Rhynias
B. millipedes
C. Hydnoceras
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Oriskany sandstones was derived from:
A. erosion of old limestones
B. erosion of old sandstones
C. erosion of old evaporites
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The Caledonian belt is a twin of the:
A. northen Antler belt
B. northern Ellesmerian belt
C. northern Appalachian-East Greenland system
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What highlighted mid-Paleozoic time was the explosive evolution of :
A. Fish
B. Stromatolites
C. brachiopods
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The Acadian event was caused by the collision of the E. North America plate with:
A. Taconian land
B. Franklin belt
C. Avalonia microcontinent
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Unusual large number of great reef complexes formed during:
A. Cambrian
B. Silurian and Devonian times
C. Ordovician
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Western and northern margins of N. America had been passively sinking during:
A. Middle Paleozoic
B. Early Paleozoic
C. Late Paleozoic
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One of the most primitive land plants known was:
A. Gilboa
B. Lycopsids
C. Rhynia
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Marine Circulations into Michigan basin was restricted during Late Silurian by:
A. deep water landslides
B. deep sea basins
C. reef barriers
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During Devonian time, Euramerica was surrounded by:
A. transform boudaries
B. subduction zones
C. divergent margins
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Paleoclimate during the middle Paleozoic was warm as indicated by:
A. evaporites and reefs
B. tillites
C. dropstones
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Silurian and Devonian reefs are of special interest because their significance as:
A. meteorite impact sites
B. oil traps and metallic ores
C. volcanic calderas
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Unusual Silurian iron-rich sedimentary deposits found in the:
A. central Appalachian
B. south Appalachian
C. northern Appalachian
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Devonian corals had about______growth lines.
A. 360
B. 700
C. 400
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A classic Devonian reef complex is exposed in:
A. Bahama
B. Florida
C. windjana Gorge, Australia
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The top predators in the Silurian were:
A. nutiloids
B. eurpterids
C. ammonoids
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Ordovician Volcanic ash and graptolite mud within the Appalachian region reflect:
A. tectonic unrest due to convergent activities
B. sea floor spreading
C. Global cooling
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Clastic wedges are characteristically associated with:
A. sea floor spreading
B. continental rifting
C. tectonic orogenies
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The Ordovician collision between N. America and Avalonia defined by:
A. the Atlantic ocean
B. suture zone
C. transform faults
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Idealized Ordovician sequence of ophiolite upward through flysch strata to molasse deposits represent:
A. progression from nonmarine to continental conditions
B. progression from deep-marine to non-marine conditions
C. progression from sea floor spreading to contintal rifting
Explanation / Answer
1. B) millipedes
Discovered in 2004 that lived 428 million years ago
3) C. northern Appalachian-East Greenland system
15. C. windjana Gorge, Australia
18) C. tectonic orogenies
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