Faults
What are the three stages of major mountain belt building?
Accumulation stage, orogenic stage, and extension, block faulting and uplift.
What is a Craton
A stable, interior portion of continent with mainly old crystalline rocks
Which National Park has the oldest trees on earth?
Great Basin National Park
Where is Death Valley located?
California
Hot Springs National Park bedrock made of this type of rock
Sedimentary Rock
Crystal Deformation can be formed by
Folding or faulting
What is an accretionary terrane?
Land added to continents during plate collisions
Which National Park has very large exfoliation dome of granite?
Sequoia National Park
An Example of Complex Mountains found in North Carolina and Tennessee
The Great Smoky Mountains
The San Andres Fault is what kind of fault?
Strike-Slip fault
What is a fault
fractures and movement in the crust caused by tectonic forces
Folding is a term for
Bending of rock
Which National park has the tallest trees on earth?
Redwood National Park
This is the driest, lowest, hottest land in the U.S.
Death Valley
Metamorphic rocks can be organized into these two categories
Foiled and Non-Foiled
What are the three types of folding?
Anticline, syncline, and monocline
What is Anticline Folding?
the rocks fold upwards in arches
What kind is faulting are present in Great Basin National Park?
Normal faulting
Where is Big Bend National Park located?
Texas
Give examples of the differences between anticlines and synclines?
Anticlines fold upward while synclines fold downward
What are the three types of faulting?
Normal faulting, Reversed faulting and Strike-slip faulting.
What is Syncline Faulting?
The rocks fold downward in troughs
Death Valley has a deposition of sedimentary rock in this age
Paleozoic
Where is Hot Springs National Park located
Arkansas
What is the difference between folds and faults?
Folding is the bending for rock while faulting is the breaking of rocks