M.Sc. (Semester III) (CBCS) Examination Oct/Nov-2017
Applied Geology
GEOARCHAEOLOGY
Day Date: Saturday, 25-11-2017 Max. Marks: 70
Time: 02.30 PM to 05.00 PM
Instructions: All questions carry equal marks.
Question 1 is compulsory.
Answer any two essay questions from 4.
Answer any two short note questions from 7.
Draw neat and labeled diagrams wherever necessary.
Q.1 Multiple choice questions: 14
Stratigraphy is
Study of the earth layers
The jutting forward of the lower face and jaw area
Design etched into a rock face
Study of ancient diseases.
The belief that processes like weathering and erosion are responsible for
the appearance of the earth is known as
Uniformitarianism Natural selection
Creationism Adaptation
The mineral mica sets of cleavages.
3 2
4 1
What is the hardness of Mineral Talc in Moh's scale of hardness?
8 4
5 1
The mineral kyanite shows form.
Crystalline Foliated
Bladed Earthy
is the weakest plane of the mineral
Cleavage Foliation
Lineation Fracture
The rocks formed by cooling of hot and molten material below or on the
surface of the earth crust are called as
Igneous Sedimentary
Metamorphic All the above
The monument Taj Mahal built by rocks?
Basalt Granit
Lime stone Marble
An is a triangle- shaped deposit of gravel, sand and even smaller
pieces of sediment, such as silt.
Alluvian Fan Alluvian Cone
Sand dune Yardang
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10) A is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial
debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly
glaciated regions on Earth a past glacial maximum), through
geomorphological processes.
Till Moraine
Meander Cave
11) The stone age human used mineral to cut the flesh.
Gypsum Flint
Calcite Talc
12) The soil which consists of sand (particle size>63 silt (particle size>2
and a smaller amount of clay (particle size 2 particles are
called as
Sandy soil Alluvail soil
Loomy soil Red soil
13) The chemical composition of Quartz is
SiO2 Al2 O3
K2 O None of the above
14) Sandstone is a type of rock.
Metamorphic Plutonic
Metamorphic Igneous
Q.2 Write in detail Geological Time scalel. 14
Q.3 Describe various landforms developed in karst environment. 14
Q.4 How sedimentary rocks are formed. Discuss various depositional structures of
sedimentary rocks.
14
Q.5 Write short answer 14
Formation of caves and glacial deposits.
Soil micromorphology and archaeology.
Q. 6 Discuss in short: 14
Physical properties of quartz, mica and garnet minerals.
Classification of ligneous rocks
Q.7 Write in brief: 14
Fluvial depositional formations.
Alluvial archaeology