Author Question: You are sitting in class when your professor begins talking about a dome with the inner layers ... (Read 195 times)

ARLKQ · **on:** Jul 16, 2018

You are sitting in class when your professor begins talking about a dome with the inner layers dating back to the Tertiary and its outer layers dating back to the Permian. You immediately know this professor is wrong. What is your evidence?

A) Domes don't have layers.
B) Domes have the oldest layers in the middle, not the youngest.
C) Now that we know the age of the layers, we would call it a syncline.
D) Domes didn't exist back then.

Question 2

What is the outcrop pattern of a plunging syncline?

A) The layers will close to a point in the direction of plunge.
B) The layers will be oriented parallel to each other.
C) The layers will intersect at right angles.
D) The layers will open up in the direction of plunge.