TNPSC Assistant Curator Geology Previous Year Question Paper 2010
| TNPSC – Curator & Asst.Curator – 2010 – Geology | |
| Sr. No. | Questions with multiple options |
| 1. | Which of the following is correctly matched?
(a) Potassium – Orthoclase (b) Magnesium – Calcite (c) Calcium – Apatite (d) Iron – Magnesite |
| 2. | We serve four cations in groundwater. Arrange them in decreasing order of abundance:
(a) Potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium (b) Sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium (c) Magnesium, sodium, calcium, potassium (d) Calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium |
| 3. | Salty taste of groundwater is due to
(a) Chloride in excess of 100 gm/L causes a salty taste (b) Water containing nitrate more than 100 gm/L is bitter taste (c) Potassium imparts salty taste to groundwater (d) Water containing sulphate above 500 gm/L imparts bitter taste. |
| 4. | Which one of the following is correctly matched?
(a) Darcy’s law – Reynolds number is less than one (b) Turbulent flow – Clay (c) Laminar flow – Large pores (d) Low hydraulic conductivity – Small pores |
| 5. | Which one of the following is correctly matched?
(a) Primary porosity – Secondary interstices (b) Secondary porosity – Original interstices (c) Effective porosity – Ratio of to interstices total volume of rock (d) Supercapillary intensities – Water is held by adhesive forces |
| 6. | The muscovite mica deposit of Nellore occurs in which of the following host rocks?
(a) Schists (b) Gneisses (c) Granite (d) Pegmatite |
| 7. | Barite deposits occur in
(a) Gulcheru quartzites (b) Vempalle limestones (c) Tadpatri shales (d) Kolamnala shales |
| 8. | The Cuddapah supergroup of rocks are overlain by
(a) Precambrian basement (b) Kurnool group (c) Kaladgi group (d) Pakhal group |
| 9. | The rocks which shows a relatively higher degree of metamorphism than the Dharwar is
(a) Closepet granite (b) Fundamental gneiss (c) Sargur schist (d) None of these |
| 10. | The uncoiled ammonite characteristic of Uttattur formations are
(a) Scaphites and turrilites (b) Turrilites and anisoceras (c) Anisoceras and scaphites (d) All of these |
| 11. | The radiometric age of the Deccan basalt that flows from Mumbai is
(a) 30 – 40 million years (b) 60 – 65 million years (c) 50 – 55 million years (d) None of these |
| 12. | Sills of the Deccan traps which are noted in Satpura area of Madhya Pradesh are present in
(a) Lower Gondwana formations (b) Upper Gondwana formations (c) Jurassic formations (d) None of these |
| 13. | The index fossil of Cretaceous –Eocene boundary which occur in Trichy Cretaceous formations is
(a) Orbitoides media (b) Cardita jaquinoti (c) Siderolites calcitrapoides (d) None of these |
| 14. | The index fossil of Danian on the Indian subcontinent is
(a) Lenticulina (b) Robulus (c) Cardita beaumonti (d) Operculina |
| 15. | In the case of deformed rocks the top and bottom of beds are determined with the help of
(a) Current bedding (b) Graded bedding (c) Current ripple marks (d) All of these |
| 16. | A graptolite showing the reversal of evolutionary trend is
(a) Dicellograptus (b) Climacograptus (c) Dicranograptus (d) None of these |
| 17. | Graptolites are most common and abundant in
(a) Sandstone (b) Limestone (c) Black shales (d) None of these |
| 18. | The two fixed cheeks together with the glabella in trilobites constitute the
(a) Cranidium (b) Rostrum (c) Doublure (d) None of these |
| 19. | Cells with ammonite suture appear first in
(a) Permian (b) Devonian (c) Cretaceous (d) None of these |
| 20. | The age of Cypridea is
(a) Miocene (b) Pliocene (c) Oligocene (d) Pleistocene |
| Published on – 16th Oct 2021 | |
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