Complex Mountain Terms
Fractures with no displacement.
What are joints?
Park that has the "First Sunrise".
What is Acadia National Park?
Breaking displacement of rock.
What is Faulting?
Bending of the Rock.
What is Folding?
The tallest trees on Earth.
What are Redwoods?
Stable, interior portion of continent, very old crystalline rocks.
What is Craton?
The hottest, driest, lowest land in the U.S.
What is Death Valley National Park?
Rocks pull apart, and the handing wall moves down relative to the footwall.
What is a Normal Fault?
Only one side of the rock layer is folded down
What is a Monocline?
The smallest National Park in the U.S.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
Biologic sedimentary rock formed in deep ocean from plankton skeletons.
What is Cert (flint)?
National Park created thanks in part to John Rockefeller's donation in 1929.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
Forces push the hanging wall up relative to the footwall.
What is a Reverse Fault?
Large, upwardly bulging fold.
What is a Dome?
The active mountain-building stage.
What is the Orogenic Stage?
Metamorphic rocks with a layered or banded appearance.
What are Foliated Metamorphic Rocks?
The National Park that has a climate that ranges from desert to alpine due to elevation changes.
What is Great Basin National Park?
Lateral movement, most common on transform plate boundaries.
What is a Strike-Slip Fault?
When rocks are folded downward in trough, with the youngest rocks in the center.
What is a Syncline?
Where soft, Paleozoic limestone is exposed at the surface in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
What is Cades Cove?
Repeated Freeze/Thaw that weathers rocks.
What is Frost Wedging?
What is Inselberg?
The ares directly below a fault where rocks are found.
What is a footwall?
Downwardly bulging fold.
What is a Basin?
A cave in Great Basin National Park with many Speleothems.
What is Lehman Cave?