Mountain Building Basics
What are the three stages of mountain building?
What are accumulation, orogeny, and erosion?
What is the difference between folds and faults?
Folds = rocks bend; faults = rocks break and move.
What are the two major types of metamorphic rocks?
What are foliated and non-foliated?
What causes the alternating mountains and valleys in the Basin and Range Province?
What is normal faulting (extension)?
What are the three physiographic provinces of the Appalachians?
What are Valley & Ridge, Blue Ridge, and Piedmont?
What is the old, stable interior of a continent called?
What is the craton?
What is an anticline?
What is an arch-shaped fold with oldest rocks in the center?
Slate, schist, and gneiss belong to which metamorphic category?
What are foliated rocks?
hat is an alluvial fan?
What is a cone-shaped sediment deposit at a mountain front?
n which province is Shenandoah National Park located?
What is the Blue Ridge Province?
How do continents grow over time?
What is tectonic accretion?
What is a syncline?
What is a trough-shaped fold with youngest rocks in the center?
Marble and quartzite belong to which metamorphic category?
What are non-foliated rocks?
What is a playa or playa lake?
What is a dry lakebed in a basin?
What type of faulting is common in Shenandoah’s geology?
What is thrust faulting?
Which National Parks represent the erosion stage of mountain building?
What are the Appalachian parks (Great Smoky, Shenandoah)?
What type of fault has the hanging wall moving down?
What is a normal fault?
What rock does shale metamorphose into first?
What is slate?
Which National Park contains the lowest point in the U.S.?
What is Death Valley National Park?
Why does Great Smoky Mountains National Park have many waterfalls?
What is strong chemical erosion from a wet climate?
Which National Parks represent active orogeny?
What are Rocky Mountain NP and Grand Teton NP?
What type of fault has sideways motion?
What is a strike-slip fault?
List the metamorphic progression of shale.
What is shale = slate = schist = gneiss?
Which National Park has a fault-block mountain range with a dropped hanging wall of ~30,000 feet?
What is Grand Teton National Park?
Why is Cades Cove a flat, fertile valley?
What is underlying limestone?