GOP QUIZ3 Flashcards
(44 cards)
1
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- Indo-Australian plate is converging at an average rate of ________ in a ______ direction.
A
70 mm/year;
in a 003° direction
2
Q
- It is the peninsular extension of Eurasia.
A
Sundaland
3
Q
- Papua is an extension of the continental lithosphere of ?
A
Australia
4
Q
- The Philippine Sea Plate converges on the Eurasian plate at Taiwan in
a ________ direction at _______ mm/year
A
307° direction;
at 86 mm/year
5
Q
- It is a trace of a mantle hotspot (currently under Kerguelen Plateau). Furthest end is the Rajmahal traps (105 Ma)
A
Ninety-East Ridge
6
Q
- When did the spreading ceased at the Wharton Ridge, and what was the cause of it?
A
Eocene;
Due to the collision of India with
Eurasia
7
Q
- What is the largest subaerial delta in the world?
A
Ganga-Brahmaputra
8
Q
- Where does the sediments derived from that fills the Bengal and Necobar fans?
A
Himalayas Mountains
9
Q
9.
A
a
10
Q
- This subduction is almost perpendicular such that subducting slab reaches
greater depths.
A
Java-Sumbawa
11
Q
- Papua is part of what plate?
A
Indo-Australian Plate
12
Q
- Majority of the land forms in SEA was already formed during?
A
Triassic
13
Q
- A mountain building that started in Permian to Triassic
A
Indosinian Orogeny
14
Q
- Three distinct episodes of sea floor spreading
A
In the Argo Abyssal Plain;
Rapid northwards movement of India;
Spreading ceased at the Wharton Ridge
15
Q
- Himalayas Mountains were formed by?
A
Collision of India to Eurasia
16
Q
- At what rate does India moves?
A
15cm/yr to 17cm/yr
17
Q
- An example of transform fault that is a product of two pairs of diverging plates.
A
Investigator Ridge
18
Q
- Age of the furthest end, the Rajmahal traps
A
105Ma
19
Q
- Longest feature in the Indian Ocean
A
Ninety-East Ridge
20
Q
- Turbidity complexes found within Indian ocean
A
Bengal and Nicobar Fans
21
Q
21.Bengal and Nicobar Fans has the same source but separated by what feature?
A
Ninety-East Ridge
22
Q
- The world’s greatest recorded eruption was in ______ that occurred in ________.
A
Tambora(sumbawa);
1815
23
Q
- 4th greatest eruption recorded was in _____ that occured in ________.
A
Krakatau(java);
1883
24
Q
- Type example of obliquely convergent margin
A
Sumatra
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25. The parallel component produces right-lateral strike-slip transform
faults, which also called ?
Wrench fault
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26. Volcanic arc that are closer to the subduction is typically _______.
Tholeiitic
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27. Volcanic arc that are farthest (back-arc rifting) to the subduction is typically ________.
Alkaline
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28. In Myanmar, the volcanic rocks lie on three distinct lines:
Western Line;
Central Line;
Eastern Line.
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29. The west Burma Plate is bounded on the west by the _____________, and on the east by the ______________?
Indo-Burman Ranges suture;
Sagaing right-lateral wrench fault
30
30. Three main structural interpretations in Timor Collision Zone
Imbricate model;
Overthrust model;
Rebound model.
31
31. This marginal basin is actively subducting beneath the Sulu
Archipelago, Zamboanga, and Negros.
Sulu Sea
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32. It has the greatest free-air gravity anomaly
of the whole region.
Banda Sea
33
33. Majority of the sedimentary basins of Asia are found in?
Sundaland Area
34
34. Exception in the Indosinian orogeny.
Baram Delta
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35. Other name for Proto South China Sea
Danau
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36. The geothermal gradient of
the Central Sumatra Basin is very high, at ____________.
61 degrees Celsius/ Km
37
37. It has the most outstanding producer of oil, with 7577 ×
106 barrels of oil.
Central Sumatra
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38. When was the giant oilfield of Minas discovered?
in 1944
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36. Untapped hydrocarbons in the Philippines is estimated to
worth how much?
$26.3 trillion
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37. It which covers 2,200 hectares straddling the provinces of Cotabato, Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat, is estimated to hold 3.4 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of natural gas and 4.8 billion barrels (BBL) of crude oil.
Liguasan Marsh
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38. When did the history of oil and gas started in the Philippines?
1896
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39. Also known as the "Petroleum Act of 1949"
Republic Act No. 387
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40. The oldest rocks of the whole of Southeast Asia are the high-grade Precambrian metamorphic rocks of the __________, located at _________.
Kontum Massif;
eastern Vietnam.
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