Faulting
Folding
Geologic Histories
Volcanic Terms
National Park Trivia
100
The actual surface of a fault.
What is a fault plane?
100
Rocks folded upward in arch with the oldest rocks in the middle.
What is an anticline?
100
This National Park had Glaciers, Volcanic Activity and Laramide Orogeny during the Cenozoic Era.
What is the Grand Teton National Park?
100
Caldera
What is a depression made by the collapse of a magma chamber called?
100
Katmi National Park
What National Park is referred to as the “valley of 10,000 smokes”?
200
Hanging wall down, tensional forces pulling apart
What is normal faulting?
200
Rocks folded downward in trough with youngest rocks in the center.
What is a syncline?
200
This National Park had Basins that filled with sediments, Speleothems, and Glaciation in the Cenozoic Era.
What is the Great Basin National Park.
200
Shield volcano
What is a broadly sloped volcano with mostly basaltic lava flow called?
200
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
What National Park has the youngest rocks of any National Park?
300
Hanging wall up, compressional forces pushing blocks together
What is reverse faulting?
300
Large upwardly bulging fold.
What is a dome?
300
This National Park has seen Intrusion of Granite and Diorite in the Cenozoic Era and lies just east of the San Andreas Fault.
What is Joshua Tree National Park.
300
Felsic
What type of lava is categorized by being highly viscous and lightly colored?
300
Yellowstone National Park
What National Park is associated with yellow rhyolite?
400
Movement along a crack in the earth.
What is faulting?
400
A downward bulging fold.
What is a basin?
400
This DRY National Park has an abundance of Alluvial Fans and Evaporites.
What is Death Valley National Park.
400
Stratovolcano
What is a large, roughly symmetrical volcano with violent eruptions called?
400
Mount Rainier National Park
What National Park has stratovolcanoes and commonly experiences lahars?
500
Tectonic forces of moving plates
What causes faulting?
500
One side of rock layers folded down. This is present in Colorado Plateau.
What is a monocline?
500
This National Park seen an extensive deposition of marine sediments in the Mesozoic Era due to subduction of Oceanic Crust under Continental Crust.
What is Redwood National Park.
500
Pyroclastic material
What is solid material ejected from a volcano called?
500
Haleakala National Park
What National Park is known for its beautiful sin raises?
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