National Parks
Which national park was established in 1986?
Great Basin National Park
How many stages are there in mountain building and what are they?
3 stages: Accumulation, Orogenic, and Crustal Extension
Which National Park is known for hot springs and bath houses?
Hot Springs National Park
What animal lived during the Mesozoic time period?
Dinosaurs
Glaciated Granite includes:
Striations, granite domes and sheets of granite
This national park contains rainy winters and dry summers
Redwood National Park
Crustal Deformation includes
Folds and Faults
Trees are up to 2000 years old in...
Redwood National Park
Great Basin National Park has marine and near shore deposition of sedimentary rocks in which era?
Paleozoic
Charlies Bunion is located
At Great Smokey Mountain National Park
What national park doesn't have many rocks exposed due to lush vegetation?
Shenandoah National Park
What is the stable, interior portion of continent, usually very old crystalline?
A craton
This national park is in Basin and Range Physiographic province
Joshua Tree National Park
There is coastal erosion and techtonism in Redwood national park. What era is this?
Cenozoic
Sea stacks are located in which national park?
Redwood
Sporadic uplift and vigorous erosion (Cenozoic) is in which national parks geology?
Great Smokey Mountains National Park
Which type of fault has rocks directly above the fault?
Hanging wall
Interior drainage with dry "lakes" salt flats is big in what national park?
Death Valley National Park
Great Smokey Mountains National Park has a lot of riftingm, block faulting and uplift in...
Mesozoic Era
Walls and floors of this cave open horizontally
Lehman Cave
Which national park contains the largest trees in the world?
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park
One side of rock layers folded down is called?
A monocline
What national park is just south of Yellowstone?
Grand Teton
Sedimentation and Volcanism is...
Precambrian era
What infiltrates through mountains, mainly through chert and novaculite?
Groundwater