Quiz (REG101T)

SPT, PDPU
Roll No: Time: 30 minutes
Instructions: Answer to the point in the space provided. Use the last page for rough work.
All questions carry 1 mark while question number 14 carries 2 marks.

1. Name all the category-II sedimentary basins of India as per DGH norms: Kutch,
Andamaan and Mahanadi Basins.
2. Agents of metamorphism: heat/temperature, pressure, chemically active fluids like
H2O and CO2.
3. Metamorphism caused by meteoritic impact: Impact/Shock metamorphism.
4. Arrange foliated metamorphic rocks in ascending grade/intensity of metamorphism.
Slate < phyllite < schist < gneiss < migmetite.
5. Name two types of body waves used in seismic survey:
P-/Primary/Compressional and S-/Secondary/Shear waves.
6. Parent rock for Marble and Quartzite: Limestone/Dolomite and Sandstone.
7. Mention the stress type and rock behavior/nature for the generation of reverse faults:
Compreesive stress and brittle rocks.
8. Which type of Kerogene is natural gas prone: type-III mainly and type-II partly.
9. Name all the elements of petroleum system.
Source, reservoir, seal (cap), trap, migration path (optional).
10. Identify the structural feature in the following plan view of the field: Synform.
Hinge line

35° 30° 25° 30°

30° 25° 30° 35°

11. Name different theories before plate tectonics concept applicable to the global movement
of different continents: Continental drift and Sea floor spreading.
12. What type of grain size variation is observed in marine regression: Coarsening upward.
13. Write the full form of TOC and VR0 of a source rock: Total Organic Carbon and
Vitrinite Reflectance.
14.

Set different beds deposition and tectonics mentioned in diagram in a geologic order:

Dike A

Dike B and sill

Batholith

Normal Fault B

Shale

Conglomerate

Reverse Fault A

Sandstone.

15. Demarcate the unconformity surface and name the type too in the following diagram.
16. Name the hanging wall and footwall block along with type of faulting in the following
diagram.

H/W F/W

17. Name the branch of stratigraphy that deals with the use of inorganic chemistry as a
correlation tool between lithological units: Chemostratigraphy.
18. Strike of a planar feature has to be measured in a ……… plane while dip in a ……….
plane:
Horizontal, vertical.
19. Write different periods of Palaeozoic era in a geologic sequence: Cambrian,
Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permain.