Areas of Complex Mountains
Geology Terms
Faulting
Metamorphic Rocks
Folding
100
This National Park is located in Wyoming, and is just south of Yellowstone National Park.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
100
This is the stage where mountain building occurs and is said to cause folding and faulting
What is the orogenic stage?
100
This type of faulting occurs when compressional forces push blocks together.
What is reverse faulting?
100
This type of rock is metamorphosed limestone or dolomite.
What is Marble?
100
This type of fold is not very common and occurs when one side of the rock layer is folded down.
What is a Monocline?
200
This National Park contains Felsic dikes and vertebrate fossils.
What is Big Bend National Park?
200
This fracture in the crust occurs as a source of most earthquakes.
What is a fault?
200
This faulting creates lateral movement.
What is a strike-slip fault?
200
This type of rock is metamorphosed shale; fine-grained; splits into flat sheets:
What is Slate?
200
This type of fold is when the rock's folded in an upward arch.
What is Anticline?
300
This national park is located in Nevada and contains large areas of internal drainage such as: dry lakes, salt lakes and disappearing streams.
What is Great Basin National Park?
300
The alignment of flat crystal flakes of a rock under pressure into parallel sheets is known as:
What is an foliation?
300
The rock that hangs directly above the fault is this.
What is a hanging wall?
300
This type of rock is made from further metamorphism of slate:
What is Schist?
300
This type of fold is when a rock is folded in a downward trough.
What is Syncline?
400
This National Park was established in 1994 and is known for the Joshua Tree.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
400
Rocks that are: parallel, planar, laminar and the features formed perpendicular to stress direction.
What is Foliated?
400
This rock is found directly below the fault.
What is a footwall?
400
This type of rock is Foliated metamorphic.
What is Gneiss?
400
Large upwardly bulging folds.
What is a dome?
500
This National Park is located in Southern California, and is home to: seals, sea lions, island fox, sea birds and nine endangered plant species.
What is Channel Islands National Park?
500
This is caused by crust movement squeezed from certain directions:
What is compression?
500
The name of the actual surface of the fault.
What is a fault plane?
500
This type of rock is coarse-grained and indigenous.
What is granite?
500
This is a downward bulging fold.
What is a basin?
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