Mountain Formation
The three stages of major mountain building
What are the accumulation, orogenic, crustal extension, block faulting, and uplift stages?
Hottest, driest, and lowest land in the United States
What is Death Valley National Park
Most of the bedrock exposed in the Grand Teton mountains is
What is Precambrian crystalline rocks?
Breaks rocks apart due to water freezing in the cracks of rocks
The park that is home to Snake River
What is the Grand Tetons National Park?
The two main types of folds
What is anticlines and synclines?
The park features the largest trees in the world, but not the highest
What is Sequoia National Park?
The core of law-grade Precambrain and Paleozoic rocks faulted over each other where ther eis extensive metamorphism, folding, and low-angle faulting
What is a metamorphic core complex?
The breaking of rocks which causes displacement
What is faults?
The park that has no drainage outlets to any ocean so rainfall and snowmelt percolated into the groups as groundwater or evaporates
What is Great Basin National Park?
The stable, interior portion of a continent
What is craton?
The park features alluvial fans
What is Death Valley National Park?
The park that has granitic intrusions early in Cenozoic
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
The lateral movement is caused by crustal plates moving past one another
What is strike-slip faulting?
The lowest point in North America
What is Badwater Basin?
One side of rocks layers folded down
What is monocline?
The higher elevations of this national park get more than double the rainfall than we get and receive over 100 inches of snow in the winter
What is Smoky Mountains National Park?
The place where Paleozoic limestone is exposed at the surface in the Great Smokey Mountains National park
What is Cades Cove?
This forms at the base of mountains due to abrupt changes in gradient as the streams hit the valley floor and deposit sediments
What are Alluvial Fans?
The park that formed the oldest rocks by repeated sedimentation interbedded with lava flows in the Precambrian
What is Gran Tetons National Park?
The three main types of faults
What is fault plane, hanging wall, and footwall?
The groundwater is heated by the friction of faults at
What is Redwood National Park?
The park has slow chemical weathering due to low amount of rainfall.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
Land added to continents during plate collisions
What is accretionary terrane?
The parks adjacent to each other where one is known for its very deep canyon and the other is known for having the largest trees in the world
What is Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park?