Folding
The bending of rock
What is folding?
Rocks that have been changed through temperature/pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
National Park located in a rainshadow desert, notable spheroidal weathering
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
The breaking displacement of rock
What is faulting?
The two states that contain Great Smoky Mountains National Park
An upwardly bulging fold
What is a dome?
Rocks that are composed of fragments of previous rocks
What are sedimentary rocks?
National Park with large areas of internal drainage (dry lakes, disappearing streams)
What is Great Basin?
Actual surface of the fault
What is the fault plane?
Highest point in Tennessee
What is Clingman's dome?
Rocks that are folded in an upward arch
What is an anticline?
What are igneous rocks?
National Park known for block faulting resulting in a valley of sediments
What is Grand Teton?
Rock directly above the fault
What is the hanging wall?
National Park where over 850,000 gallons of hot water flow each day
What is Hot Springs National Park?
Rocks that are folded downward in a trough
What is a syncline?
Lithified aggregate of minerals
What is a rock?
National Park with fault scarp
What is Death Valley?
Rock directly below the fault
What is the footwall?
National park containing the Blue Ridge Mountains
What is Shenandoah National Park?
One side of rock layers folded down
What is a monocline?
Layering in metamorphic rocks, caused by pressure
What is foliation?
Land added to continents during plate collisions, common in California
What is accretionary terrane?
Notable location of a Strike-slip fault
What is the San Andreas Fault?
National Park with extreme precipitation and temperature differences at high elevations and valleys