Across
- 8. A stumper on the Intro Geo mineral ID quiz. Commonly confused with amphibole
- 9. of Fire, Chain of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean
- 12. Gentle giant - the star of ice age mammals
- 15. Type of volcanic explosion that destroyed Pompeii
- 17. Staff, Difficult to measure a stratigraphic section without this
- 19. Minerals of economic value
- 20. Breaks down entire mountain ranges
- 21. Computer program used to virtually assess a field site (heavily used in COVID-19 times)
- 23. Your non-geologist friends always want to know if this is a valuable mineral… it’s not
- 25. Released into underlying sediment from calving icebergs
- 26. Conceals your identity AND protects yourself and others
- 27. “Foreign Rock”
- 28. Snail-like creature
- 31. Steep side of a ripple
- 32. Concave-shaped valley, formed by glacial erosion
- 33. Natural “tables” found commonly in the SouthWest
- 34. Very subjective mineral property - It’s metallic or it’s not
Down
- 1. Fine-grained, mafic, igneous rock
- 2. Hickenlooper, Colorado’s very own geologist/politician/brewer
- 3. Soil horizon
- 4. COVID-19 app of the year
- 5. Mineral-identifying instrument in Tutt that has been broken the whole year
- 6. Spectacular U shaped valley - commonly found in NZ and Iceland
- 7. Room, Helps facilitate group discussion on zoom
- 10. Hammer, A geologists favorite tool
- 11. Less steep side of a ripple
- 13. Lake, Created when a meandering river is cut off
- 14. Supercontinent
- 15. Frozen tundra
- 16. Inclined sedimentary strata
- 18. Naturally occurring glass
- 22. Ute tribe’s name for the 14,115-foot summit that towers over campus
- 24. Common term in geomorphology to describe river processes
- 29. A geologist’s favorite beverage
- 30. Joined it's buddy Curiosity this past February