Folding and Faulting
Geologic History of National Parks
Landmarks
Grand Teton National Park
Module 6 Random Questions
100
Rocks folded upward in an arch; oldest rocks in the center, along fold axis.
What is Anticline folding?
100
The oldest geologic event in Grand Teton National Park.
What is repeated sedimentation interbedded with lava flows, uplift, and erosion in Precambrian?
100
Which National Park is this landmark from and what is it called?
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What is Joshua Tree National Park?
What is Joshua Tree?
100
What river runs through Grand Teton National Park?
What is Snake River?
100
Highest point in the lower 48 states, located in Sequoia National Park.
What is Mt. Whitney?
200
Fractures in the crust along which movement has occurred. Caused by tectonic forces and is the source of most earthquakes.
What are faults?
200
The most recent event in the geologic history of Grand Basin National Park.
What is the basin filling with sediments, speleothems, and glaciation in Cenozoic?
200
A National Park was named after this massive tree.
What is Sequoia National Park?
200
In what state Grand Teton National Park located?
What is Wyoming?
200
A trace of fault on a land surface that is steeper than the face of the slope, commonly lighter colored?
What is a Fault Scrap?
300
One side of rock layers folded down, present in Colorado Plateau.
What is monocline folding?
300
Event that occurred in Death Valley National Park in the Mesozoic Era.
What is an intrusion of granite batholiths and thrust faulting?
300
What is this landmark called and what National Park is it from?
What is Snake River?
What is Grand Teton National Park?
300
What type of fault is in Grand Teton National Park?
What is a normal fault?
300
The hottest, driest, and lowest land in the US.
What is Death Valley National Park in California?
400
Hanging wall up, compressional forces pushing blocks together.
What is reverse faulting?
400
Event that occurred in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the Cenozoic Era.
What is sporadic uplift and vigorous erosion in Cenozoic?
400
What is this called and which National Park is it found in?
What is alluvial fan?
What is Death Valley National Park?
400
Tilted Paleozoic rocks lie unconformably on what in Grand Teton National Park? (Age and rock)
What is Precambrian gneiss and granite?
400
A core of low grade Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks faulted over each other?
What is Metamorphic Core Complex?
500
Rock directly below the fault.
What is a footwall?
500
The most recent event in Hot Springs National Park geologic history.
What is erosion and alluvium in Cenozoic?
500
What landmark is this and what National Park is it found in?
What is Laurel Falls?
What is Great Smokey Mountains National Park?
500
What year was Grand Teton established as a National Park?
When was 1929?
500
What and where is Inselberg?
What is an “island mountain” of granite in Joshua Tree National Park?