Complex Mountains Terms/Concepts
What is accumulation stage, orogenic stage or crustal extension, block faulting and uplift
It is common for this to occur when a fault experiences movement
What is an earthquake?
Where is the Hot Springs National Park located?
Where can a emergent coastline be found?
Redwood National Park
What structure forms when calcium salt drips water?
stalactite
This type of folding occurs when rocks fold upward in an arch
What is anticline?
This layer of rock lies directly below the surface of a fault
What is the Footwall?
Where are the tallest trees on Earth located?
What is Redwood National Park
The highest point in National Teton Park of the Fault zone?
13,770 feet
Laurel Falls flows over what type of rock?
What is precambrian thunderhead sandstone
This complex mountain has the highest peak in the lower 48 states
What is Mount Whitney?
Where Fault area does the Furnace Creek Fault Zone connect to?
Death Valley Fault Zone
What's the lowest point in North America?
What is Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park
This leads to a brittle deformation of the upper crust and breakage into slivers?
Crustal Extension
What is the Bedrock formation in Hot Springs National Park?
Paleozoic bedrock
This stage in complex mountain formation begins with accumulation and causes folding and faulting
What is the Orogenic Stage?
This strike-slip fault stretches for 1,200 kilometers through California
What is the San Andreas Fault?
Jenny Lake is located in this National Park.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
This National Park had Laramide Orogeny in the Cenozoic Era as well as non-marine, shallow sea sedimentation in the Mesozoic Era.
What is Greand Teton National Park?
What rock type makes up the majority of Shenandoah National Park?
What is Precambrian Greenstone
An addition of exotic terranes to a continental land mass. They are typically formed due to intense plate collisions.
What is a tectonic accretion?
This type of fault occurs when the hanging wall moves up. Compressional forces are pushing the blocks together.
What is a reverse fault?
This National Park is 307 miles in length. It's area is very skinny as it encompasses the long Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is Shenandoah National Park?
This National Park's geologic history includes intrusions of granite and diorite in the Cenozoic Era, as well as complex metamorphic rocks in the Precambrian Era.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
This foliated, metamorphic rock, found in the Anakeesta formation, is found in Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
What is slate?