Mountain Building
This stage involves thick layers of sediment or volcanic rock building up over time.
What is the Accumulation Stage?
A bend in rock layers due to stress.
What is a fold?
The surface along which movement occurs in a fault.
What is a fault plane?
This Wyoming park features dramatic mountains formed by faulting and uplift.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
This Arkansas park is known for thermal springs and bathhouses.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
This stage includes folding and faulting as mountains begin forming.
What is the Orogenic Stage?
A break in rock with movement along it.
What is a fault?
The rock located above the fault plane.
What is the hanging wall?
This Nevada park has elevations from desert valleys to alpine peaks.
What is Great Basin National Park?
This Virginia park features Skyline Drive and part of the Appalachian Trail.
What is Shenandoah National Park?
This stage includes uplift, erosion, and block faulting after mountains form.
What is Crustal Extension and Uplift?
A fold where the oldest rocks are in the center and it arches upward.
What is an anticline?
The rock located below the fault plane.
What is the footwall?
This California park is known for Joshua trees and two desert ecosystems.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
This park spans Tennessee and North Carolina and is known for biodiversity.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
The process where the Earth’s crust rebounds upward after being compressed.
What is Isostatic rebound?
A fold where the youngest rocks are in the center and it dips downward.
What is a syncline?
Cracks in rock where no movement has occurred.
What are joints?
This park is the hottest, driest, and lowest place in the U.S.
What is Death Valley National Park?
These trees are the tallest in the world and found in a California park.
What are Redwoods (Redwood National Park)?
This mountain-building event influenced Grand Teton formation.
What is the Laramide Orogeny?
A rare fold where rock layers bend in one direction like a step.
What is a monocline?
The type of faulting common in the Basin and Range Province.
What is block faulting?
These parks contain the largest trees on Earth, including General Sherman.
What are Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks?
Compared to Death Valley, this park has extreme elevation variation but cooler alpine climates.
What is Great Basin National Park?