Regents Geology of New York State & Crust

The surface bedrock at Old Forge, New York, is mostly

• flat-lying, sedimentary rock formed during the Grenville Orogeny

• flat-lying, sedimentary rock formed during the Acadian Orogeny

• intensely metamorphosed rock formed during the Grenville Orogeny

• intensely metamorphosed rock formed during the Acadian Orogeny

Ordovician-age crinoid fossils of tropical marine origin are found in the bedrock of the Hudson Mohawk lowlands region of New York State. This provides evidence that New York State was once located at a

• lower latitude and lower elevation

• lower latitude and higher elevation

• higher latitude and lower elevation

• higher latitude and higher elevation

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Which two New York State locations have surface bedrock of similar ages?

• Mt. Marcy and Slide Mt.

• Buffalo and Rochester

• Old Forge and Niagara Falls

• Watertown and Albany

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Sedimentary rock layers that were deposited between 488 million and 444 million years ago are found on the surface at which two New York State locations?

• Ithaca and Jamestown

• Utica and Syracuse

• Oswego and Old Forge

• Albany and Massena

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The Tug Hill region of New York State is geologically classified as a plateau because this region has relatively

• high elevation and deformed bedrock

• low elevation and deformed bedrock

• high elevation and horizontal bedrock

• low elevation and horizontal bedrock

Which important geologic event in New York State occurred just after the Grenville Mountains were starting to erode?

• Pangea began to break up

• The Iapetus Ocean began to open

• The Catskill Delta formed

• The Taconic Mountains were eroded

In the New York State rock record, there is no bedrock from the Permian Period. Which two other entire geologic periods have no sediment or bedrock in the New York State rock record?

• Cretaceous and Quaternary Periods

• Paleogene and Neogene Periods

• Triassic and Jurassic Periods

• Mississippian and Pennsylvanian Periods

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Which fossil has not been found in the New York State rock record?

• Silurian eurypterids

• Triassic dinosaur footprints

• Permian trilobites

• Pleistocene mastodont bones

The diagram below represents the placoderm fish Bothriolepis, an index fossil found in New York State. The surface bedrock at which location is most likely to contain this fossil?

• Ithaca

• Old Forge

• Albany

• New York City

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Which geologic event occurred in New York State at approximately the same time as the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonoids?

• formation of the Queenston Delta

• deposition of the sands and clays underlying Long Island

• initial opening of the Atlantic Ocean

• advance and retreat of the last continental ice sheet

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