Stratigraphy MCQ Practice Paper -001

#1. Gondwana supergroup is economically important because they are rich in :

economic mineral

coal alone

iron ore alone

sandstone and clay

#2. The most common rock-stratigraphic unit is the_______________

Formation

Beds

Group

Members

#3. Correlate and mark correct one:

1-i, 2-ii, 3-iii, 4-iv

1-iii, 2-i, 3-iv, 4-ii

1-ii, 2-i, 3-iv, 4-iii

1-iv, 2-iii, 3-I, 4-ii

#4. Which of the following is correct in ascending order for Geological time units?

Age, Period, Epoch, Era

Era, Period, Epoch, Age

Age, Epoch, Period, Era

None of the above

#5. The above figure indicates which principles of stratigraphy?

Principle of Original Horizontality

Principle of Original Continuity

Principle of Fossil Succession

Principle of Cross-Cutting Relationships

#6. Eparchean unconformity separates

Kurnool from Cuddapah

Archean from younger formations

Upper Gondwana from lower Gondwana

None of the above

#7. Mark the correct stratigraphic succession of the gondwana system in ascending order?

Talchir:panchet:damuda:mahadeva:rajmahal:Jabalpur

Talchir: damuda: panchet: mahadeva: rajmahal:Jabalpur

Talchir: damuda: Jabalpur: panchet: mahadeva: rajmahal

panchet: mahadeva: rajmahal: Talchir: damuda: : Jabalpur

#8. Large reptiles became abundant during the ____Era?

Cenozoic

Paleozoic

Precambrian

Mesozoic

#9. According to the principle of Uniformitarianism :

Geologic process in the past operated at the same rate as they do today.

All of the planets formed from a uniform solar nebula.

Geologic processes we observe today have operated in the past.

Early Earth was covered by a uniform magma ocean.

#10. The age estimate for point A in the diagram above is __ million years

0.16

1.6

16

160

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