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1. Which of the following are all layer silicate minerals?

  • quartz, feldspars, pryoxenes, amphiboles, olivine, garnet.
  • hematite, quartz, silica, potassium feldspar, talc, chert
  • Galena, quartz, gypsum, muscovite, halite, barytes, iron pyrites
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2. which rock is a coarse textured, intrusive igneous rock dominated by quarts, K feldspar and mica?

  • Granite
  • Felsite
  • Diorite
  • Basalt

3. What is the correct order of the geological time periods?

  • Holocene, pleistocene, pleiocene, miocene, oligocene, eocene, cretaceous, jurassic, triassic, permian, carboniferous, devonian, silurian, ordovician, cambrian
  • cambrian, ordivician, silurian, devonian, carboniferous, permian, triassic, jurassic, cretacrous, eocene, oligocene, miocene, pleiocene, pleistocene, holocene
  • ordovician, holocene, cambrian, carboniferous, cretaceous, eocene, devonian, silurian, permian, jurassic, oligocene, triassic, pleiosene, miocene, pleistocene

4. Which of the following is the youngest Pre-Cambrian rock type?

  • Moine Schist
  • Lewisian Gneiss
  • Torridchian Sandstone

5. What is the correct order of age (youngest to oldest) of these carboniferous rocks.

  • coal measures, limestone series, millstone grit
  • Coal measures, millstone grit, limestone series
  • Millstone grit, limestone series, coal measures

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