Geological Time
In the Grand Teton, what are the oldest rocks in the park?
What is Precambrian
The stable interior portion of a continent is called what?
What is a craton
The 3 stages of mountain building are complex. What are they?
What are the accumulation stage, Orogenic Stage and the Crustal Extension, Block Faulting, and Uplift stage?
what types of rocks are found in the grand teton national park?
what is basalt.
When was Death Valley considered a national park.
what is 1994
In Death Valley, when does the intrusions of granite batholiths and thrust faulting occur?
What is the Mesozoic?
The addition of exotic terranes to a continental landmass, usually caused by intense plate collisions, is called what?
what is tectonic accretion
what is the earliest formed terrane in alaska?
what is the yukon terrane
there is lots of rocks in the great basin but what is the main formation
what is cenozoic lava
what are the deposits of sediments called in death valley
what is alluvial fans and playas?
in the sequoia national park, when did the alpine glaciers shape the park?
What is the Cenozoic era.
The bending of rock is called what?
What is a fold?
when you see a sincline and a anticline together why does that happen?
what is a lot of pressure.
What cave was created when the Paleozoic limestonewas dissolved
what is Lehman cave
What is the closest fault to Death Valley
what is San Andreas
in the western part of Kings Canyon, there was a cave formed in the Cenozoic. What is that cave called?
What is Wind Cave
The breaking displacement of rock is called what?
What is a fault
when you see a dome how is it formed?
What is a Large Scale Fold Structure
what word means island rock in German
what is inselberg
What is the Basin in Death Valley called
What is Badwater?
The bedrock in Hot Springs National Park is from what era?
What is Paleozoic
there are 3 main types of folds what are they?
what are anticline, syncline and monocline
What are the strike-slip movement, the side-to-side movement, and the dip-slip movement?
why is there so much spheroidal weathering?
What is higher humidity
what happens in the wet season in death valley?
What is a sediment pile up?