Mountain Building
What is the Accumulation Stage?
The first stage of mountain building where sedimentary or volcanic rocks are deposited.
What is an anticline?
Upward arch with the oldest rocks in the middle.
What is the Laramide Orogeny?
The mountain-building event that formed the Tetons.
What is Redwood National Park?
This national park contains the tallest trees in the world.
What's another name for Chert?
Flint
What is the Orogenic Stage?
The stage where folding and faulting begin.
What is a syncline?
Downward fold with the youngest rocks in the middle.
What is the Yellowstone hot spot?
The nearby hot spot that helped cause uplift and crustal extension.
What are Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park?
These national parks contain the largest-diameter trees in the world.
What is novaculite?
Slightly metamorphosed chert.
What is Crustal Extension, Block Faulting, and Uplift?
The final stage involving crustal extension, block faulting, uplift, weathering, and erosion.
What is a strike-slip fault?
Side-to-side movement along a fault.
What is normal faulting caused by crustal extension?
The process that creates alternating mountain ranges and basins.
What is Death Valley National Park?
The national park that contains the lowest point in the United States.
What are bristlecone pine trees?
The oldest trees in the world.
What is a craton?
The stable interior part of a continent where the oldest rocks are found.
What is a joint?
A crack in rock with no displacement.
What is a playa?
A dry lake bed common in desert basins.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
The smallest U.S. national park at only 9 square miles.
What is the Blue Ridge Province?
The Appalachian physiographic province that contains mostly Precambrian crystalline rocks.
What is tectonic accretion?
The process that adds land to continents during plate collisions or subduction.
What is the hanging wall?
The rock above a fault plane.
What are alluvial fans?
Fan-shaped deposits of sediment formed where streams leave mountains.
What is Mount Whitney?
The mountain in Sequoia National Park which is the highest peak in the lower 48 states.
What is Cades Cove?
The flat, fertile valley in Great Smoky Mountains National Park that is underlain by limestone.