Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Geography

Consider the following statements:

  1. Bullard’s reconstruction of the Atlantic margins used the 1,000-fathom line rather than the present shorelines.
  2. Ancient rocks about 2,000 million years old on the Brazilian coast correspond with rocks in western Africa.
  3. Ghana’s placer gold deposits are associated with abundant local gold-bearing source rocks.
  4. Mesosaurus remains occur in parts of South Africa and Brazil that are now separated by an ocean.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. 1 and 2 only
  2. 1, 2 and 4 only
  3. 2, 3 and 4 only
  4. 1, 3 and 4 only
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