Fun Facts About National Parks
This is the smallest National Park.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
Great thickness of sedimentary or volcanic rock are deposited.
What is Accumulation stage?
The bending of rocks.
What is Folding?
At an elevation of 6643 feet this is the highest point in Tennessee.
What is Clingmans Dome?
This valley is known as the hottest driest valley in the US.
This National Park has well-known rock formation in the park, named for its distinct shape, called a half dome.
What is Yosemite National Park?
Mountain building stage, begins while accumulation occurs, causes folding and faulting.
What is Orogenic stage?
A downward bulging fold.
What is a Basin?
The Geology of the Great Smokey Mountains is very similar to this National Park in Virginia.
What is Shenandoah National Park?
This California National Park was established in 1994. The park covers 794,000 acres in two deserts, the Colorado and Mojave.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
This National Park is the lowest point.
What is Death Valley National Park?
Occurs during isostatic rebound of crustal plates, after orogenic stage, surface weathering and erosion occurs during this stage.
What is crustal extension, block faulting, and uplift?
Rocks directly above the fault.
What is the Hanging Wall?
The most visited waterfall in the Great Smoky Mountains.
What is Laurel Falls?
One side of rock layers folded down, not very common, but present in Colorado Plateau.
What is a Monocline?
This mountain in the National Park's peak is 20,310 feet above sea level, making it the highest mountain in North America.
What is Denali National Park?
Addition of exotic terranes to a continental land mass, usually by intense plate collisions.
What is Tectonic accretion?
Rock commonly known as Flint.
What is Chert?
The Great Smokey Mountains lay in these two states.
What is Tennessee and North Carolina?
Rocks folded downward in trough where the youngest rocks are in the center along fold axis.
What is a Syncline?
This is the only National Park in Maine.
What is Acadia National Park?
Stable, interior portion of continent, usually very old crystalline rocks.
What is Craton?
Slightly metamorphosed chert with crystals too small to see.
What is Novaculite?
The temperature in the Great Smoky Mountains never rises above this degree.
What is 80 degrees Fahrenheit?
Rocks folded upward in arch where the oldest rocks are in the center, along fold axis.
What is an Anticline?