Mountain Building
The first stage of mountain belt building is when thick layers of sedimentary or volcanic rocks accumulate.
What is the Accumulation Stage?
A fold shaped like an arch.
What is an anticline?
A crack in Earth's crust with movement.
What is a fault?
The stable interior of a continent made of very old crystaline rock.
What is a craton?
Wyoming park famous for spectacular block-fault mountains.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
This mountain-building stage causes folding and faulting.
What is the Orogenic Stage?
A fold shaped like a trough.
What is a syncline?
This fault forms when rocks are pulled apart.
What is a normal fault?
The process by which continents grow through the addition of exotic terranes.
What is tetonic accretion?
Nevada park known for Basin and Range geology.
What is Great Basin National Park?
During this stage, block faulting, crust extension, uplift, weathering, and erosion occur.
What is the Crustal Extension, Block Faulting, and the Uplift Stage?
In this fold, the oldest rocks are found in the center.
What is an anticline?
This fault forms when rocks are pushed together.
What is a reverse fault (or thrust fault)?
The actual surface along which movement occurs on a fault.
What is the fault plane?
California park that is famous for giant sequoia trees.
What is Sequoia National Park?
These are the three stages of major mountain building in order.
What are Accumulation, Orogenic, and Crustal Extension/Block Faulting/ Uplift?
In this fold, the youngest rocks are found in the center.
What is a syncline?
This fault moves primarily sideways.
What is a strike-slip fault?
The rock below the fault plane.
What is the footwall?
California park that contains the lowest elevation in North America.
What is Death Valley National Park?
Mountain building begins during this stage rather than waiting until after sediment accumulation is complete.
What is the Orogenic Stage?
A fold with only one limb, common on the Colorado Plateau and seen at Capitol Reef.
What is a monocline?
The rock layer located above an inclined fault plane.
What is the hanging wall?
Faults with vertical movement are collectively known by this name.
What are dip-slip faults?
Tennessee and North Carolina park that preserves the Appalachian Mountains.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?