Pure Rocksalt colour
A. White
B. Blue
C. Yellow
D. Colourless
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Essential constituent of marble, limestone or chalk.
A. Calcite
B. Sidonite
C. Dolomite
D. Pynite
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When axial plane of a fold is vertical and either of the limbs have the same amount of dip then such fold is described as
A. Asymmetric
B. Symmetric
C. Fan
D. Chevron
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It is an important constituent of granite and a chief constituent of sandstone where it occurs as broken form. Its hardness is 7 (seven). Name the mineral.
A. Magnetite
B. Topaz
C. Orthoclase
D. Quartz
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The traces of former living creatures, plants preserved in rocks.
A. Faults
B. Fossils
C. Folds
D. Sills
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Two theories are known to explain the heavy accumulation of vegetable and organic matter that formed coal seams. If one of the two theories is drift theory, what is the other?
A. Beam theory
B. Keystone theory
C. Insitu theory
D. Stratified theory
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During which transportation, the organism is decomposed and it loses nitrogen, oxygen and other volatile constituent?
A. Evolution
B. Sedimentation
C. Crystallization
D. Carbonization
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Glaciers are masses of
A. Solid mineral
B. Earth's crust
C. Solid ice
D. Frozen dust
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Diamond hardness number
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Oldest period in geological time scale.
A. Precambrian
B. Pleistocene
C. Jurassic
D. Siluman
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Specific gravity of monazite
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The ratio of volume of voids in a rock or soil to its total volume is known as
A. Lithology
B. Plasticity
C. Permeability
D. Porosity
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The geological age of gondowana rocks is believed to be during
A. Archaeans to cambrians
B. Cambrian to silurian
C. Carboniferous to jurassic
D. Cretaceous to pliocene
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These are wavy undulations developed in country rocks whenever the region is subjected to severe pressure or stress
A. Fault
B. Fold
C. Dyke
D. Sill
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The topographic depressions that accommodates lakes are known as
A. Crater lakes
B. Aeolian lakes
C. Lake basins
D. Hom-shoe lakes
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As per the sized gradation of coal, the size of rubble coal is
A. 51 mm to 200 mm
B. 25 mm to 50 mm
C. 0 mm to 24 mm
D. Any unscreened size
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Cleavage plane of mica is . . . . . . . direction.
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Crack in earth crust filled with mineral
A. Ore
B. Vein
C. Mineral deposit
D. Bed rosk
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Quartz crystallizes in . . . . . . . . system.
A. Hexagonal
B. Cubic
C. Monoclinic
D. None
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The mineral contains calcium carbonate are called
A. Calcite
B. Siderite
C. Dolomite
D. Bauxite
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