Name: _____________________________________________ Date: _________________ Period: ________
LAB# ____
Mapping the Earth: An ESRT Lab Activity
Directions: Use the reference tables shown below to answer the corresponding questions.
modified from
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM
1989
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Earth Science Reference Tables — 2001 Edition
Generalized Bedrock Geology of New York State
Ni
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GEOLOGICAL PERIODS AND ERAS IN NEW YORK
CRETACEOUS, TERTIARY, PLEISTOCENE (Epoch) weakly consolidated to unconsolidated gravels, sands, and clays
LATE TRIASSIC and EARLY JURASSIC conglomerates, red sandstones, red shales, and diabase (in Palisades Sill)
PENNSYLVANIAN and MISSISSIPPIAN conglomerates, sandstones, and shales
DEVONIAN
limestones, shales, sandstones, and conglomerates
Silurian also contains salt, gypsum, and hematite.
SILURIAN
ORDOVICIAN
CAMBRIAN
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limestones, shales, sandstones, and dolostones
CAMBRIAN and EARLY ORDOVICIAN sandstones and dolostones
Moderately to intensely metamorphosed east of the Hudson River.
CAMBRIAN and ORDOVICIAN (undifferentiated) quartzites, dolostones, marbles, and schists
Intensely metamorphosed; includes portions of the Taconic Sequence and Cortlandt Complex.
TACONIC SEQUENCE sandstones, shales, and slates
Slightly to intensely metamorphosed rocks of CAMBRIAN through MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN ages.
MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC gneisses, quartzites, and marbles
Lines are generalized structure trends.
Intensely Metamorphosed Rocks
(regional metamorphism about 1,000 m.y.a.)
MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC anorthositic rocks
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Dominantly
Sedimentary
Origin
NG
LO
O UND
AND S
ISL
Dominantly
Metamorphosed
Rocks
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1. What are the coordinates of the following locations in New York State?
Binghampton: _____________________
Syracuse: ________________________
Slide Mountain: ____________________
Albany: __________________________
Plattsburg: _______________________
Massena: ________________________
2. When viewed from Oswego, how high will Polaris appear in the sky? _____________________________
3. Will the North Star be higher in the sky when viewed from Riverhead or Old Forge? Explain.
______________________________________________________________________________________
4. In which city would Polaris appear at an altitude of 42 degrees? _________________________________
5. At approximately what latitude do New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut meet? ________________
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Surface Ocean Currents
6. What are the coordinates of the big “A’s” of the following continents as shown on the map?
Antarctica: _____________________________
South America: __________________________
Australia: _______________________________
North America: __________________________
Africa: _________________________________
Asia: __________________________________
7. If your ship is caught in the West Wind Drift ocean current, and you observe the sun to be at it’s highest
point in the sky at the same moment as you chronometer reads 4:00am, the time at the Prime Meridian,
what is your longitude? ___________________________________________________________________
8. Approximately how many degrees of longitude wide is Africa? ___________________________________
9. Between what latitudes is the West Wind Drift found? _________________________________________
10. Between what latitudes is the Gulf Stream found? ___________________________________________
11. How will the altitude of the North Star change as you travel north from the “A” in Africa to the “E” in
Europe? _______________________________________________________________________________
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Tectonic
Plates
Philippine
Plate
Mid-Atlantic Rid
ge
Fiji
Plate
Sandwich
Plate
overriding
plate
KEY:
12. What are the coordinates of the following
subductingfeatures shown on the map above?
Transform Plate Boundary
Divergent Plate Boundary
(usually broken by transform
faults along mid-ocean ridges)
plate
(Transform Fault)
Convergent Plate Boundary
Hawaii Hot Spot: ___________________________
(Subduction Zone)
Galapagos Hot Spot: ________________________
Sandwich
Plate:Ridge
____________________________
Mid-Ocean
Mariana Trench: ____________________________
Canary Islands Hot Spot: _____________________
San Andreas Fault: __________________________
Complex or Uncertain
Plate Boundary
Relative Motion
at Plate Boundary
Mantle
Hot Spot
NOTE: Not all plates and boundaries are shown.
13. What would the altitude of Polaris be as viewed from the Iceland Hot Spot? _______________________
14. What feature will you pass over as you travel south from 60N 180W to 40N 160W? _________________
15. The East African Rift extends north and south between what latitudes? __________________________
16. From which hot spot would you view Polaris at an altitude of 45 degrees? ________________________
17. Which three tectonic plates are found along the Prime Meridian?
1. ______________________________
2. ______________________________
3. ______________________________
Good Job!
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