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Organisation : Uttarakhand Public Service Commission
Exam : Assistant Geologist Exam
Paper: Question Paper of Assistant Geologist Exam-2017
Document Type : Previous Year’s Question Papers
Year : 2017
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Model Questions

Part – I

1. A few thousand years ago, there was a huge river ‘Saraswati’ flowing in India. Now it is not there. What is the probable cause of its disappearance ?
(a) Global warming
(b) River capture aided by tectonic activity
(c) Damming by humans
(d) Permeability of the ground below

2. What is ‘dun’ ?
(a) A plain land within mountain
(b) A transverse valley cut by river
(c) A recent valley
(d) A wide longitudinal strike valley

3. The normal magnetic polarity epoch older to Matuyama Reverse and younger to Gilbert Reverse is known as
(a) Gauss Normal
(b) Brunches Normal
(c) Hutton Normal
(d) There is no such Normal Epoch and Gilbert Reverse directly passes to Matuyama Reverse

4. Isostasy term was first used by
(a) Airy
(b) Wagner
(c) Dalton
(d) Pratt

5. What are the two most abundant elements in nebula (gas clouds) in the universe ?
(a) Hydrogen and Helium
(b) Nitrogen and Oxygen
(c) Oxygen and Silicon
(d) Iron and Nickel

6. Pot Holes are characteristic features of
(a) Youth stage
(b) Mature stage
(c) Old stage
(d) All of these

7. Which of the following are barchans ?
(a) Deflection Basin
(b) Oasis
(c) Crescent shaped dunes
(d) Sand storms

8. Known maximum age of the continental crust is about
(a) 2000 Ma
(b) 3000 Ma
(c) 4000 Ma
(d) 5000 Ma

9. Which of the following is associated with volcano ?
(a) Tillite
(b) Morain
(c) Varve
(d) Tephra

10. Which of the following is formed by chemical weathering ?
(a) Morains
(b) Bauxite
(c) Gorge
(d) Bajada

Part – II

41. Earliest life on planet earth belongs to
(a) Green algae
(b) Cyanobacteria
(c) Trilobite
(d) Sponges

42. Ediacaran Fossils belong to
(a) Permian Age
(b) Palaeocene Age
(c) Precambrian Age
(d) Pliocene Age

43. Tall columnar stromatalites generally develop in
(a) Intertidal setting
(b) Deep marine setting
(c) Supratidal setting
(d) Subtidal setting

44. Which of the following trace fossils are indicators of shallow marine (Intertidal)environment ?
(a) Skolithos
(b) Nereites
(c) Helmenthoids (d) Polyodiction

45. A strata containing Productus, Spirifer, Fusilina and Bellarophon can be assigned to
(a) Devonian
(b) Cretaceous
(c) Permian
(d) Silurian

46. Consider the following :
(A) Paradoxides
(B) Perisphinetes
(C) Nummulites
(D) Archaeocyathids
The correct order of these in ascending order is :
(a) D – C – B – A
(b) C – B – A – D
(c) A – B – C – D
(d) D – A – B – C

47. Specimen of a species from the same locality as its holotype is called
(a) Neotype
(b) Metatype
(c) Paratype
(d) Topotype
48. Which of the following branches of Palaeontology deals with post-mortem study of fossils ?
(a) Palaeobotany
(b) Ichnology
(c) Taphonomy
(d) Micropalaeontology

49. Sinistral coiling is found in
(a) Pleurotomaria
(b) Natica
(c) Physa
(d) Cerethium

50. Which of the following is exclusively marine ?
(a) Gastropods
(b) Cephalopods
(c) Pelecypods
(d) None of these

Part – III

81. The rock units are currently arranged as
(a) Group, System, Series, Stage
(b) System, Group, Stage, Series
(c) Series, Group, Stage, System
(d) Stage, Group, System, Series

82. Which of the following is not a character of formation ?
(a) It is a mappable lithological unit.
(b) The scale of mapping is 1 : 50,000.
(c) It has uniform physio-chemical composition.
(d) It has no typical fossil assemblage.

83. One of the statements about craton is not true ?
(a) They contain oldest granitic bodies.
(b) They constitute a shield area.
(c) They are protocontinent.
(d) They are deformed by compressional tectonism.

84. Which of the following does not match correctly ?
(a) Lithostratigraphy – Supergroup
(b) Time Unit – Period
(c) Time Stratigraphic Unit – Epoch
(d) Biostratigraphy – Zone

85. The principle of uniformitarinism was proposed by
(a) Charles Darwin
(b) William Smith
(c) Charles Lyell
(d) James Hutton

Part – IV

121. Bowen’s reaction series indicates the process of _____ in magma.
(a) Fractional crystallization
(b) Gravity separation
(c) Liquid immiscibility
(d) Filter pressing

122. Graphic texture shows crystallization at
(a) Triple point
(b) Eutectic point
(c) Incongruent point
(d) There is no such fixed point.

123. Komatite rock is rich in
(a) Sodium
(b) Calcium
(c) Magnesium
(d) Titanium

124. Mushroom shaped igneous body is known as
(a) Lopolith
(b) Phacolith
(c) Laccolith
(d) Bysmalith

125. Sr87/Sr86 ratio ranging between 0.705 – 0.708 in granite indicate
(a) Mantle origin
(b) Metamorphic origin
(c) Metasomatic origin
(d) Upper crust origin