I’m definitely not familiar with Triassic sub-periods, including its epochs and ages or stages.
Questions
Apparently a time of little significant geological activity, what alliterative term has been given to the period in the Earth’s life cycle that occurred between 1.8 and 0.8 million years ago? It has been hypothesised that subsequent events led to a Snowball Earth during the Cryogenian period.
BORING BILLION
Having an adamantine luster, by what two-word term is the tough mineral carbonado also known, this being shared with a mountain sports equipment manufacturer who have their HQ in Utah?
BLACK DIAMOND
What two words does ‘holocene’ mean etymologically, it being the current geological epoch that began around 11,700 years ago?
WHOLE-NEW
Though you could easily be steered wrong by the names of varieties like zebra and bumblebee, the opaque gemstone jasper has a name that suggests it will have what characteristic feature?
SPOTS
Named for a large area from where ice cores were extracted that help to mark its upper and lower boundaries, the first stage of the holocene epoch that started over 11,500 years ago is called what?
GREENLANDIAN
Taking its name from the North Greenland Ice Core Project, what is the second and middle stage of the holocene epoch called?
NORTHGRIPPIAN
Nothing to do with Greenland but named for an Indian state, what is the third and current stage of the holocene epoch? The state is home to the Mawmluh Cave where a stalagmite was discovered that helped to mark the end of the Northgrippian stage.
MEGHALAYAN
Named for a French chemist, which non-crystalline silica mineraloid can be formed by lightning in the form of a fulgurite?
LECHATELIERITE
Discovered in the Strassfurt salt mines of Saxony-Anhalt, which mineral containing potassium gets its name from a Greek term that indicates it’s new in a previously unknown way? This term also gives rise to an alternate spelling of a geological era.
KAINITE (The era being Kainozoic)
Named for a section of the Alps that has its high point at Eisenhut in Styria, which age of the Late Triassic epoch saw the Manicougan impact, an event that formed the annular lake known as the ‘Eye of Quebec’?
NORIAN (After Noric Alps)
The final age of the Triassic period was ultimately named for which Roman province that lay to the west of Noricum? Modern day locations covered by it include Vorarlberg, Lake Constance and Augsburg.
RAETIA
The Triassic-Jurassic extinction event that led to the dominance of the dinosaurs came following the Rhaetian age and before which lowest stage of the Jurassic Period? Its name comes from a small commune in France situated between Metz and Luxembourg that has a double-barreled name, the second part of which is ‘Grande’.
HETTANGIAN
Not awarded every year and getting its name from a Norwegian-American philanthropist, which award issued by Columbia University is considered to be the Nobel Prize of Geology?
VETLESEN PRIZE
Important for fisheries as it allows nutrients to be redistributed, what type of mictic lake has a uniform temperature and density throughout the water at least once during the year? This can be contrasted with a meromictic lake that is permanently stratified.
HOLOMICTIC
McGinnis Lake is a meromictic lake within which Ontario Provincial Park that is known for its rock carvings? It is situated north-east of Peterborough, a city that has been called the ‘gateway to the Kawarthas’.
PETROGLYPHS PROVINCIAL PARK
Found within the Dore Mountains in Auvergne, which meromictic lake in Puy-de-Dôme department gives its name to a semi-soft cheese made from cow’s milk?
(LAC) PAVIN
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