Home Quiz Geologic Feature: Guess Me?
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I am a type of fault found in mid-oceanic ridges; people call me San Andreas. What am I?

A strike-slip fault

A reverse fault

A normal fault
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I built the eastern part of Washington State into a broad, flat area. What am I?

Upper mantle

Fault-block mountains

Plateau basalts
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I made carbonate rock dissolved by large amounts of groundwater in Yugoslavia. What topography am I?

Triest topography

Karst topography

Mammoth topography
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I have an interesting history of upheaval, movement, and erosion. What am I?

Concretion

Alluvium

Angular unconformity
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I am made of glacial deposits and elongated in the direction that the glacier flowed. What am I?

Drumlin

Meander

Crevasse
6 Question
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I am not steep, but I produce the basaltic rock that makes new land. What am I?

Pegmatite

Shield volcano

Composite volcano
7 Question
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I made ancient Egypt flourish as a wealthy civilization.

Graben

Tectonics

Flood plain
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I look like a scar or a pit on the land, but I once had an active past. What am I?

Horst

Caldera

Phyllite
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My shape comes from tectonic activity, exposed in a road cut. What am I?

A ravine

An anticline

A syncline
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I am made of glacial sediments, People from Long Island, New York, USA, build their communities on me. What am I?

Wave-built terrace

End moraine

Tuff