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OrigamiPlanet wrote:Welcome to the Div. C event Geologic Mapping and its Question Marathon!

For starters:
1. Define the azimuth
2. What is Earth's irregular shape that represents the surface at "zero elevation" called?
3. True/False: An anticline will always be an antiform, but an antiform will not always be an anticline.

1. The azimuth is an angle that describes the direction of a vector quantity, measured clockwise from north I think?

2. Sea level?

3. False: There are antiformal synclines and synformal anticlines.

Oh boy...

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1. The azimuth is an angle that describes the direction of a vector quantity, measured clockwise from north I think?

2. Sea level?

3. False: There are antiformal synclines and synformal anticlines.

OrigamiPlanet wrote:

Oh boy...

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1. The azimuth is an angle that describes the direction of a vector quantity, measured clockwise from north I think?

2. Sea level?

3. False: There are antiformal synclines and synformal anticlines.

1 and 3 are good, but for 2 I was looking for the term geoid. You still got the other two right! Your turn!

freed2003 wrote:

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A normal fault the top part runs down and has compression. a reverse fault it goes up and has tension.

whats the difference between an anticline and an antiform?

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In an anticline, the oldest layers are on the bottom while in an antiform, the layers are U-shaped

UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:

freed2003 wrote:

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A normal fault the top part runs down and has compression. a reverse fault it goes up and has tension.

whats the difference between an anticline and an antiform?

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In an anticline, the oldest layers are on the bottom while in an antiform, the layers are U-shaped

I did that off the top of my head, so hopefully I didn't mix them up...

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UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:

freed2003 wrote:

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A normal fault the top part runs down and has compression. a reverse fault it goes up and has tension.

whats the difference between an anticline and an antiform?

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[answer]Answer[/answer]

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In an anticline, the oldest layers are on the bottom while in an antiform, the layers are U-shaped

I did that off the top of my head, so hopefully I didn't mix them up...

Things2do wrote:Restart: What is the concept of Strike And Dip?I got the question off of the Wiki...

Strike and dip relate to slopes. The strike traces a line of equal elevation, and the dip traces the line of fastest descent. The strike and dip are perpendicular to each other.