General Geology
What a fold does to rocks.
What is bend?
The two main types of folds.
What are Anticlines and Synclines?
The overall surface of a fault.
What is a fault plane?
The first stage which causes thick volcanic or sedimentary rock deposits.
What is Accumulation Stage?
Named after a tree prevalent in this park, Hollywood is close by and this park is located in the Basin and Range Physiographic Province.
What is Joshua Tree?
Old stable crystalline rocks that make up the inside of a continent.
What is Craton?
Rocks fold up in an arch fashion and the oldest rocks are in the middle.
What is Anticline?
A fault that rotates.
What is Rotational Fault?
Second stage, when accumulation happens and causes actions like folding and faulting to occur.
What is Orogenic Stage?
It is the hottest, driest, lowest land in all of the US. There are many sand dunes and drains from the interior. Has a lot of alluvial fans and a variety of sights to see.
What is Death Valley?
Cracks in the earth's surface where tectonic movements have occured.
What are faults?
Rocks are folded down in a trough-like manner, the youngest rocks are in the middle.
What is Syncline?
A fault that uses vertical up and down movement.
What is a Normal Fault?
In the third stage, erosion and weathering occurs.
What is uplift?
The most visited National Park, includes famous landmarks such as Anakeesta Slate, Chimney Tops, and Charles Bunyan. Its most famous waterfall is Laurel Falls.
What is The Great Smokey Mountains?
Fractures in the earth where no displacement occurs.
What is a Joint?
Only one side of the rock is folded down, this fold is an uncommon occurrence.
What is Monocline?
A reverse fault where the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
What is Thrust Fault?
In the third stage, the isostatic rebound of crustal plates.
What is Crustal Extension?
A famous country song by John Denver mentions this. It is located in Appalachia along the Blue Ridge Mountains and mostly includes Precambrian rocks.
What is Shanandoah?
Exotic terrain is added to a land mass caused by intense plate collisions.
What is Tectonic Accretion?
These might look like anticlines and synclines, but they are set apart by their concentric rock patterns and large scale.
What are domes and basins?
A fault in which there is lateral movement occurring. Usually found at the bottom of an ocean.
What is Strike-Slip Faulting?
In the third stage, where the earth breaks or cracks, resulting in large tilted blocks of land.
What is block faulting?
This park is the smallest in the US and known for its bathhouses and geothermal properties. The friction along the faults heated up the groundwater here.
What is Hot Springs?