Exam 11: Late Paleozoic Earth History

The Ouachita Mountains are located in ____.

Compare the Taconic, Caledonian, and Acadian orogenies in terms of the tectonic forces that caused them and the sedimentary features that resulted.

Late Paleozoic limestones are used for manufacturing cement.

During the Mississippian, an epeiric sea covered part of North America. What type of rock deposit would provide supporting evidence for the sea?

The three major mobile belts in North America during the Late Paleozoic were the ____.

Long scratches formed on bedrock when a glacier moves over a land surface are ____.

During ____________________ ____________________, high pressure fluid is injected into rocks to create cracks that will allow gas to escape.

Erosion of the Acadian highland resulted in deposition of ____.

The Middle to Late Devonian was a time of major reef-building worldwide.

What rock evidence leads geologists to conclude that much of Pangaea was an arid or semi-arid environment?