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Hello, I joined today... :biggrin:

Seems like there isn't many geologists around here, I hope I am wrong....

But did anyone did the Geology exam today? 16th May, on earth structures and that

Reply 1

CurtainrailMan

You might maybe want to mention what exam out of however many hundred geology exams there are in the UK you sat...

Reply 2

username318090

you mean for OCR unit 1? The AS exam? i did that exam today

Reply 3

zohmygoditsgabby

Was that the AS one all about mid ocean ridges and subduction zones?

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Reply 4

username318090

8 mark question at the end about oceanic and continental convergent plate features and processes?

Reply 5

zohmygoditsgabby

Yeah that one, how did you find it? I thought it was okay, exactly what I was expecting :smile:

Reply 6

louisjevans

Woooo geologyyy!!!!!!!!!! :d

Reply 7

Chrisd00100

I thought this had no replies, will be adding some people that did so as well!

Yes OCR, AS level (first year of a levels) about earthquakes, earth structure and that, and yeah with a 8 marks in the last page about continental-oceanic convergent boundary!

This is some of what i remember
I had no idea of the answer for the first question, which asked what was the plate tectonic feature that caused the earthquake in japan.... I misspelled symmetrical syncline (wrote sincline), so probs will lose a mark as they asked to spell it correctly...

In the fold questions with pictures I said symmetrical anticline, then I think it was an overfold (can't remember well) then recumbent fold...

I had no idea about how satellite could help us to see the movement of the ocean plate... Don't even remember my answer...

For the earthquakes questions, I said the richter scale measures the energy released... For the Mercalli scale, I said the it measures the damage caused? I hope they allow it as it measures the intensity which is the damage caused...

The evidence for meteorite impact i mentioned was craters, inverted strata and impact melting (hope it counts...)

The last question, 8 marks, I mentioned everything that came to my head, partial melting, volcanoes, earthquake due to friction and that, fold mountains, subduction, ocean plate is denser therefore is the one that is subducted...etc

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Reply 8

zohmygoditsgabby

I thought the first question for Japan was to do with the subduction zone like the convergent plate boundary?
The question about the rate of sea floor spreading was 3cm/year, I know I did that wrong, I did it in metres :frown:

but yeah the last one I drew a typical diagram and put in everything! I can't really remember much now, the folds question was quite difficult I think like labelling them, idk I can't remember much :L

Reply 9

Chrisd00100

Original post by zohmygoditsgabby

yeah 3 cm/year, that's what I put... yeees:P And yeah for the first question I only wrote: subduction. Probs not enough...

I think we'll need like 42-48 out of 60 to get an A, so I hope they'll be kind when marking my paper xD

I wasn't too sure about the questions on liquefaction.... In the diagram for the MOR was just the one in the book, the normal fault one was easy I guess....

Can't remember of anything else, good luck for the Wednesday exam, about rocks and processes