Growing a Continent
The stable interior portion of the continent
What is The Craton?
Three stages of major mountain building
What are the accumulation stage, orogenic stage, crustal extension, and block faulting stage?
The two main types of folds
What are anticlines and synclines?
Three main types of faults
What are normal faulting, reverse and thrust faulting, and strike-slip faulting?
The first billionaire in the world
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Where continent gains land on the tectonically active margins
What is Tectonic accretion?
Great thickness of sedimentary or volcanic rock is deposited
What is the Accumulation Stage?
Folded in the shape of an arch
What is an anticline?
The faults movement is side to side
What is a strike-slip fault?
Meanders through the flat, wide valley at the base of the Grand Tetons
What is Snake River?
The rocks in the earth’s crust change shape
What is folding or faulting?
The mountain-building stage, which begins while accumulation occurs, causes folding and faulting.
What is the Orogenic Stage?
Folded downward like a trough
What is a syncline?
Known as "dip-slip" faults
What is a normal and thrust fault?
The largest lake in Grand Teton National Park
What is Jackson Lake?
The bending of rock
What is Folds?
During the isostatic rebound of crustal plates after the orogenic stage, surface weathering and erosion occur.
What is Crustal Extension, Block Faulting, and Uplift?
Basically, a buckle in the Earth’s crust with only one limb of the fold
What is a monocline?
The actual surface of a fault
What is the fault plane?
Just south of Yellowstone National Park
What is Grand Teton National Park?
The breaking displacement of rock.
What are faults?
The first stage of major mountain building
What is the accumulation stage?
The oldest rocks are near the center
What is an anticline?
The rock directly below the fault
What is a footwall?
John D. Rockefeller donated a lot of land where?
What is the Grand Tetons and Acadia?