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This section includes 10 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Engineering Geology knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Peanut structure is shown by ____________ |
| A. | Sandstone |
| B. | Limestone |
| C. | Shale |
| D. | Breccia |
| Answer» C. Shale | |
| 2. |
The bedding involving crater shaped depressions is ____________ |
| A. | Mud cracks |
| B. | Rain prints |
| C. | Ripple marks |
| D. | Sun cracks |
| Answer» C. Ripple marks | |
| 3. |
Mud cracks are common in which type of sedimentary rocks? |
| A. | Fine grained |
| B. | Medium grained |
| C. | Coarse grained |
| D. | Not particular |
| Answer» B. Medium grained | |
| 4. |
Graded bedding occurs due to which phenomenon? |
| A. | Wind settling |
| B. | Sunlight |
| C. | Gravitational settling |
| D. | Loading |
| Answer» D. Loading | |
| 5. |
Type of bedding where sorting and arrangement has occurred based on grain size is ____________ |
| A. | Cross bedding |
| B. | Lamination |
| C. | Graded bedding |
| D. | Mud cracks |
| Answer» D. Mud cracks | |
| 6. |
Type of false bedding where the individual layers exist in well-defined sets of parallel layers is ____________ |
| A. | Columnar |
| B. | Tabular |
| C. | Lenticular |
| D. | Wedge shaped |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
The type of false bedding where top and bottom surfaces are parallel is ____________ |
| A. | Columnar |
| B. | Tabular |
| C. | Lenticular |
| D. | Wedge shaped |
| Answer» C. Lenticular | |
| 8. |
Each layer of a laminated structure of sedimentary rock is called ____________ |
| A. | Strata |
| B. | Leaf |
| C. | Lamina |
| D. | Layer |
| Answer» D. Layer | |
| 9. |
The structure most prevalent to clastic rocks is ____________ |
| A. | Nodular structure |
| B. | Geode structure |
| C. | Concretionary structure |
| D. | Lamination |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
The layered arrangement in sedimentary rocks is called ____________ |
| A. | Mud cracks |
| B. | Stratification |
| C. | Rain prints |
| D. | Ripple marks |
| Answer» C. Rain prints | |