Mountain Information
What are the three stages of mountain building?
Accumulation, orogenic, uplift.
Where is the Lewis Thrust Fault?
Notably in Glacier National Park.
A National Park in Wyoming that contains a 40- mile long normal fault.
Grand Teton.
What kind of rocks are found in Hot Springs National Park?
What is a Playa?
Dry lake bed.
What is the Craton?
What is the Hanging Wall?
Rock block above a fault plane.
A National Park in California that lies in Basin and Range.
Joshua Tree.
____ rocks are formed by the cooling/ crystallization of magma/lava.
Igneous.
Alluvial Fans are...
What is "Faulting"?
Rocks breaking with displacement. (Fracture)
Where the rocks are folded upward in an arch.
What does Death Valley National Park famously contain?
The lowest point in the USA.
Joshua Tree National Park contains _____ metamorphic rocks.
Precambrian.
What are the oldest trees in the world?
Bristlecone Pine Trees.
What is "Folding"?
Rocks bending due to compressional forces.
Rocks folded in a downward tough pattern are...
A syncline.
What is Cades Cove?
A flat valley in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
What are the three types of rocks?
Metamorphic, Igneous, Sedimentary.
Great Smoky Mountain National Park has what kind of weathering?
Chemical Weathering.
Define "Tectonic Accretion".
A process that makes continents grow by plates adding land.
What is an example of a Monocline being present?
The Colorado Plateau.
Is Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas a small or large NP?
Small NP.
Redwood National park has active ______.
Coastal Erosion.
Domes, Basins.