Areas with complex Mountains
Where are the Great Smoky Mountains located?
What is Tennesee and North Carolina?
What stage does " great thickness of sedimentary or volcanic rock are deposited " take place?
What is the Accumulation stage?
Bending of rock
What is Folding?
hanging wall down, tensional forces pulling apart
what is Normal Faulting
Average temperature 45 – 61 degree Fahrenheit
Where is the Great Basin located?
What is Neveda?
A breaking displacement of rock
What is faulting
rocks folded upward in arch – Oldest rocks in center, along fold axis
What is Anticline?
hanging wall up, compressional forces pushing blocks together
what is Reverse Faulting
Over 100 inches of snowfall at highest elevations, only about 12 inches in valley
What is the Smoky Mountains?
Where is the Hot Springs Located?
What is Arkansas?
mountain building stage, begins while accumulation occurs, causes folding and faulting
What is Orogenic Stage?
rocks folded downward in trough – Youngest rocks in center, along fold axis
What is Syncline?
lateral movement
what is Strike-slip Fault
Climate ranges from desert to alpine due to elevation changes
What is the great Basin
Where is Shenandoah located?
What is virginia?
occurs during the isostatic rebound of crustal plates, after the orogenic stage, surface weathering, and erosion occur during this stage
What is crustal extension, block faulting, and uplift
One side of rock layers folded down
What is Monocline?
low angle reverse fault
What is Thrust Fault
This National Park has the hottest, driest, lowest land in the U.S.
What is Death Valley?
Joshua Tree, Redwood, Death Valley, Sequioa and Kings Canyon, and Channel Islands location
California
The stable, interior portion of a continent
What is a craton?
not very common, but present in Colorado Plateau (Waterpocket Fold of Capitol Reef National Park – Utah)
What is Monocline?
What type of fault is the San Andreas Fault
What is Strike-slip Fault
a rain shadow desert