Challenge Bowl 2022-6

Which planet axial tilt is so grat that it is known as the “sideways planet”

The Great Pyramid of Giza is constructed from block of

As of June 30, 2017 SEG has ____ student chapters

Seismic velocities are most sensitive to which of the following?

In what year did the SEG adopt the current logo?

Moraines are features related to glaciation

A blind zone may result where a layer has lower velocity than overlying layers

80% of the largest naturally ocurring earthquakes take place in the Himalayas

The ________ is a statue created by scriptor Jay O’ Melia. It resides now in the atrium of SEG’s headquarters in Tulsa.

On September 15, 2017 we said goodbye to this intrepid explorer

Capillary pressure ___________ as pore size

Interval velocities are derived from rms velocities using the Dix formula

Where was the first SEG Challenge Bowl held?

Both Tesla and __________ are units of magnetic flux density

A “flat spot” often represents a ….

Identify this aluminum ore

The higher the vitrine reflectance of a hydrocarbon source rock the more likely it is to be _____

If a 250 Hz signal is sampled at 4 ms sampling rate, what is the output frequency of the sampled signal?

“Sinistral” and “Dextral” are terms associated with…

This is a common desert landform

A “triangle” in a circuit diagram usually represents a(n)...

Folding of mountain ranges in dramatic shortening of the Earth’s crust

The center of mass of the Eath-Moon binary system lies…

Quartz has higher Young’s modulus than Calcite.

In standard UTM system, the surface of the Earth is mapped onto a cylinder whose axis is ______ to the Earth’s axis

Deconvolution broadens a seismic wavelet

Aeolian sandstones are generally better reservoirs than turbidites.

In his original paper, Jon Clearbout called his form of interferometry_______ seismic

This high res map of the ocean floor shows a _____, a particular structure first recognized by Harry Hess in 1945

Cobble-sized particles are most likely to be transported as part of a stream’s

These glacials features are known as ____________ lakes.

The Sun has about 99% ofthe mass of our Solar System

Tomography reconstructs an object from a set of slices through the object

Ore bodies at divergent plate margins are generally formed by

Which of the following is not among the 8 most abundant elements on Earth?

The_______ method of inversion finds the best answer by taking a random walk through solution space

In a non-despersive medium, the amplitude of an impulsive point source falls off as…