Mountain Building and Structural Geology
This is the stable interior portion of a continent where the oldest rocks on Earth are found.
What is a Craton?
This type of fold forms an arch shape.
What is an anticline?
This mountain-building event formed much of the Grand Teton region during the Cenozoic.
What is the Laramide Orogeny?
This national park is the hottest and driest place in the United States.
What is Death Valley National Park?
The Great Basin is unique because none of its surface water drains into this.
What is an ocean?
The addition of exotic terranes to a continent during plate collisions is known as this.
What us tectonic accretion?
This type of fold is shaped like a downward trough.
What is a syncline?
This is the largest lake in Grand Teton National Park.
What us Jackson Lake.
This is the lowest point in North America.
What is Badwater Basin?
This Great Smoky Mountains formation consists mainly of slate.
What is the Anakeesta Formation
These are fractures in rock where no displacement has occurred.
WHat are joints?
This type of fault has vertical displacement with the hanging wall moving downward.
What is a normal fault?
This cave in Great Basin National Park formed by groundwater dissolving limestone.
What is Lehman Cave?
This is the highest peak in the contiguous United States, located in eastern Sequoia National Park.
What is Mount Whitney?
The Shenandoah River flows between these two physiographic provinces.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Valley and Ridge Province?
A flat, sandy area that may contain salt deposits is called this.
What is a playa?
In a fault, this block of rock lies directly above the fault plane.
What is the hanging wall?
This physiographic province contains fault-block mountains separated by broad basins.
What is the Basin and Range Province?
This cave in Sequoia National Park formed in marble that was once limestone.
What is Crystal Cave?
Redwood trees thrive because of abundant moisture from these two weather sources.
What are rain and fog?
These fan-shaped deposits form where streams leave steep mountains and enter flat valleys.
What are alluvial fans?
This type of fold is a step-like bend in rock layers with only one limb
What is a monocline?
The Grand Teton peak is classified as this glacial landform.
What is a horn?
The dominant rock type in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is this intrusive igneous rock.
What is granite?
Groundwater at Hot Springs National Park is heated by this process.
What is friction along faults?