Types of Faults
The type of faulting which consists of tensional forces pulling apart.
What is normal faulting?
The type of large-scale fold structure which is a downward bulging fold.
What is a basin?
The period when the bedrock of the Appalachians started forming.
What is the Precambrian Period?
The lowest, driest, and hottest land in the United States located in the Mojave Desert.
What is Death Valley National Park?
The average snowfall at the highest elevation of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
What is over 100 inches?
This type of faulting consists of compressional forces pushing blocks together.
What is reverse faulting?
The type of rock folding where rocks are folded upward in an arch.
What is an anticline?
The period when the bedrock of Redwoods National Park started forming.
What is the Paleozoic Period?
National Park along the northern coast of California.
What is Redwood National Park?
A cave in Sequoia National Park
What is Crystal Cave?
The same fault type as the San Andreas Fault.
What is a strike-slip fault?
The type of rock folding where rocks are folded downward in a trough pattern.
What is syncline?
The period when glaciation occurred in Great Basin National Park.
What is the Cenozoic Period?
National Park that contains Snake River Valley.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
The highest point in the lower 48 states.
What is Mt. Whitney?
This is a low angle reverse fault.
What is a thrust fault?
An uncommon type of folding where one side of rock layers are folded down.
What is a monocline?
Period when crystalline metamorphic basement rocks formed in Death Valley National Park.
What is the Precambrian Period?
National Park where around 850,000 gallons of hot water flows from 47 thermal springs every day.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
Acid rain washes the coating off of pine needles and they get eaten by invasive insects.
What is stressed vegetation?
These type of joints at Bryce Canyon National Park formed hoodoos.
What are weathered joints?
The type of rocks in the middle fold of a syncline.
What are younger strata?
Period when tectonic activity formed caves in Kings Canyon National Park?
What is the Cenozoic Period?
A national park along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is Shenandoah National Park?
A formation of foliated slate in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park.
What is Anakeeta Slate?