National Parks: Areas of Complex Mountains
Grand Tenton
What is Wyoming
Craton
What is stable, Interior portion of continent, usually very old crystalline rocks
Anticline
What is rocks folded upward in arch
Normal Faulting
What is Hanging wall down, tensional forces pulling apart
Grand Teton National Park
What is elevations range from 6,000 feet in Snake River Valley to 13,770 on Grand Teton
Great Basin
What is Nevada
Tectonic Accretion
What is addition of exotic terranes to a continental land mass, usually by intense plate collisions
Syncline
What is rocks folded downward in trough
Reverse Faulting
What is hanging wall up, compressional forces pushing blocks together
Great Basin National Park
Saguaro
What is Arizona
Crustal Deformation
What is folding and Faulting
Monocline
Strike-slip fault
What is lateral movement
Metamorphic core complex
What is core of low grade Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks faults over each other
Channel Islands
What is Arkansas
Folding
what is bending of rock
Fractures in the crust along which movement has occurred
What is Faults
Normal Faulting
What is hanging wall moves down relative to footwall
Crustal Extension
What is thinning and extension of continental crust occurred in Cenozoic
Shenandoah
What is Virginia
Faulting
What is breaking Displacement of Rock
Dip-slip Faults
What is vertical displacement
Fault plane
What is the actual surface of the fault
Bristlecone Pine
Oldest trees on earth in Great Basin National Park