Mountain Creation
This is the first stage of mountain building when thick layers of sedimentary or volcano rock accumulate.
Accumulation stage
This is the bending of rock layers.
Folding
This intrusive igneous rocks makes up much of sequoia in Kings Canyon.
Granite
This Wyoming National Park lives immediately south of Yellowstone and was uplifted during the laramide orogeny.
Grand Teton National Park
This California National Park is famous for protecting the tallest trees in the world.
Redwood National Park
This is the active mountain building stage that causes folding and folding.
Orogenic Stage
This type of fault forms when the hanging wall moves downward.
Normal fault
This metamorphic rock formed when limestone was altered by heat and pressure.
Marble
A Nevada National Park that is located in the Basin and Range Province and is characterized by interior drainage and metamorphic core complexes.
Great Basin National Park
This Arkansas national Park is known for naturally heated groundwater that rises to the surface through fractures in the rock.
Hot Springs National Park
This is the final stage includes crustal extension, uplift, and block faulting.
Crustal extension and Block Faulting Stage
This fold arches upward with the oldest rock in the center.
Anticline
This igneous intrusion cuts across older granite and his younger than surrounding rock.
Basalt dike
A California National Park that is known for giant boulders formed in granite and is located near the San Andreas Fault.
Joshua Tree National Park
This Virginia National Park contains ancient precambrian rock and complex folding and thrust folding formed during Paleozoic mountain building.
Shenandoah National Park
This process adds new land to a continent through plate collision.
Tectonic accretion
This fold bends downward with the youngest rocks in the center.
Syncline
These mineral deposits are left behind when water evaporates enclosed basins.
Evaporites
This California national park contains Badwater basin, which is the lowest point in North America, and is also known for alluvial fans, playas, and evaporites.
Death Valley National Park
This National Park, located in Tennessee in North Carolina, is famous for ancient folded mountains formed during the Appalachian mountain building events.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The stable interior of a continent made of very old crystalline rock is called this.
Craton
This fault is characterized by horizontal movement of rock.
Strike-slip fault
This large underground, massive, intrusive igneous rocks was in place during the Mesozoic area.
Granite Batholine
These two adjacent California National Parks are dominated by granite formed from the Mesozoic batholith and include Mount Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 states.
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park
These four national parks, all contain landscapes that were significantly modified in Alpine glaciers during the Cenozoic era.
Grand Teton, Great Basin, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Park