Geology Board Exam Reviewer - GOP The Philippines: A Complex Plate Boundary Quiz Set C

As I can't really commit to a 100-item practice set, I'll do quizzes of specific course subject of Geology.
Answer key will be provided on May 24, 2020. Thank you.

Geology of the Philippines

The Philippines: A Complex Plate Boundary

Set C

 

1. This collision was initiated within Miocene time, right after the cessation of the accretion of the South China Sea oceanic crust.

a. Taiwan

b. Mindoro-Panay

c. Moluccas Sea

d. Palawan Microcontinental Block

 

2. These metamorphic formations include the Caramay Schist, Halcon, Buruanga and Romblon Metamorphic Complexes and Tungauan Schist.

a. pre-Cretaceous metamorphic rocks of continental origin

b. Cretaceous metamorphic rocks of insular arc affinity

 

3. The ______________ volcanic arc corresponds to the Manila Trench

a. Luzon

b. East-Philippine

c. Negros-Panay

d. Sulu-Zamboanga

e. Cotabato

 

4. A west-dipping subduction zone, Lewis and Hayes (1983) proposed that this is a nascent subduction zone propagating northwards.

a. Manila Trench

b. Cotabato Trench

c. Philippine Trench

d. East Luzon Trough

 

5. The Philippine Mobile Belt (PMB) is an actively deforming zone created between the two plates of ________________.

a. Philippine Sea Plate, Pacific Plate

b. Philippine Sea Plate, Indo-Australian Plate

c. Philippine Sea Plate, Eurasian Plate

d. Eurasian Plate, Pacific Plate

 

6. The start of this collision is associated with the kinematic reorganization of the Philippine Sea Plate at around 4 Ma.

a. Taiwan

b. Mindoro-Panay

c. Moluccas Sea

d. Palawan Microcontinental Block

 

7. This collision was initiated within Miocene time, right after the cessation of the accretion of the South China Sea oceanic crust.

a. Taiwan

b. Mindoro-Panay

c. Moluccas Sea

d. Palawan Microcontinental Block

 

8. A late Miocene age was determined for the start of this collision.

a. Taiwan

b. Mindoro-Panay

c. Moluccas Sea

d. Palawan Microcontinental Block

 

9. The oldest known rocks of this type are found in Cebu Island and is dated Late Cretaceous.

a. Metamorphic rocks

b. Ophiolites and ophiolitic rocks

c. Magmatic rocks and active volcanic arcs

d. Sedimentary basins

 

10. This is rifted from the Asian mainland during Late Cretaceous-Late Eocene time.

a. Taiwan

b. Mindoro-Panay

c. Moluccas Sea

d. Palawan Microcontinental Block

Answer key is here. I advise that you check it out after finishing all sets.

Thanks.