GLY 1880 Midterm – Flashcards

Passive continental margins have greater frequencies of earthquakes and volcanoes than active continental margins bordered by trenches

Animals killed by "tainted air" less than 20 years prior to the burial of Herculaneum and Pompeii, probably weren't killed by gaseous emissions from fumaroles.

Which of the following is a convergent continental margin?

Laki erupted during what year?

Sediment thickness decreases away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and reaches minimum thickness along adjacent continental margins

Passive continental margins have greater frequencies of earthquakes and volcanoes than active continental margins bordered by trenches

Wegner found a temperate, deciduous flora, called the ____ flora in the fossil record of the southern continents that he believed to support continental drift.

Volcanic activity in this national park is hot spot or mantle plume related

The greatest concentration of trenches and active volcanoes is around the rim of this ocean

Is Yellowstone an active volcano?

Subduction under Italy is from what direction on this map?

Sand blows appear to be more common closer to the epicenters of the New Madrid earthquakes

This engraving is one of many artistic depictions of destruction from what earthquake?

Large scale ___ faults occur where there is continental-continental convergence causing crustal compression

What type of volcano is Tambora?

Very strong earthquakes never occur in the interior of tectonic plates

The New Madrid earthquakes occur at what type of tectonic plate boundary?

The eastern boundary of the North American plate is

The British archaeologist who discovered Knossos at Crete and originated the term Minoan was

In the vicinity of Tambora, post-eruption problems did not include

The collapse of Plinian eruption columns can cause pumice-rich ____ to rapidly inundate the flanks and surrounding regions of a stratovolcano

The summer of 1816 was so cold that it is known as

These vital infrastructure resources were built in one of the epicenter regions of the Charleston earthquakes

Yellowstone plataue is

Most of the Cyclades group of the Aegean Sea islands represents the submerged tops of mountains composed of continental crust

Older brick buildings in Charleston used mortar composed of ground

What type of volcanic rock is exposed here?

What is this feature?

What happened to the people of Santorini when the cataclysmic eruption occurred?

This gorge cut by the Rio Grande River reveals a thick sequence of

Pyroclastic flows move much faster than basalt flows

The correct size order for pyroclastic material (from smallest to largest) is

The Volcanic Explosivity Index ranges from 0 to 8. What was the index of the last major prehistoric eruption of Yellowstone?

Some of the landscapes sunsets of this artist appear to have been inspired by the colorful sunsets following the Tambora eruption.

This island chain represents a mid-plate hotspot trace

The highest eruption of clouds from Tambora reached a maximum altitude of

The eyewitness to the Vesuvius eruption described the eruption as looking like

A ____ plate boundary is a zone along which plates slide past one another and crust is neither created nor destroyed

A type of pyroclastic flow containing dense rock fragments from the volcanic vent, hot gas and lesser amounts of pumice or scoria are known by the french name

How many pyroclastic surges hit herculaneum

Dates for the Santorini eruption are provided by

Which country is the most active volcanic region in the world?

Which volcano is this

Naples is not among the top 10 largest population centers threatened by a volcanic hazard

The center of the Bronze Age civilization of Minoans was on the island of

Vesuvius, Laki and Santorini are all considered active volcanoes

What volcano is in the background?

How widely was the Charleston earthquake felt?

One hundred years ago, Europe and North America were

Ridge-push forces exceed slab-pull forces in driving plate motion

The direction of plate motion is parallel to the trend of the magnetic anomalies they produce

Iceland is on what plate boundary

What has happened to these trees?

Do the post-Minoan eruption and volcanic history of Santorini indicate that it is still an active volcano?

This is a satellite view of

Mt. Vesuvius is considered an active volcano

When an earthquake releases a strain on one segment of a fault, it can actually increase the probability of an earthquake on another region of the same fault

This volcanic area in Naples is home to 200,000 people and experiences significant vertical movement from magma causing ground swelling and contraction

A volcanic ash horizon from the eruption of this volcano is important for the alignment of the eastern Mediterranean archaeology record of the second millennium BC

The location of an earthquake can be determined by the arrival of P and S waves from a minimum of how many seismographs?

What term describes a variety of volcanic eruptions from small to ones with an eruptive column of around a kilometer? This style of eruption is short-lived and ejects viscous or pasty lava tens or hundreds of meters in the air?