Mountain Building
A great thickness of sedimentary or volcanic rock is deposited
What is the Accumulation Stage ?
This is the Hottest, driest, lowest land in the US.
What is Death Valley?
Great Smoky Mountains
Where is Tennessee & North Carolina?
This is the actual surface of the fault.
What is the fault plane?
This is a shallow, ephemeral wetland found in flat, arid, or semi-arid landscapes. These circular basins fill with water after seasonal rainstorms and eventually dry up through evaporation, leaving behind a dry lake bed
What is a playa lake?
The mountain building stage which begins while accumulation occurs, causes folding and faulting
What is the Orogenic Stage ?
This is the highest point in the lower 48 states.
What is Mt.Whitney?
Sequoia and Kings Canyon
Where is California ?
This is the rock directly above the fault.
What is the hanging wall?
This is a triangle-shaped, fan-like landform created by the deposition of sediment
What is a alluvial fan?
This occurs during isostatic rebound of crustal plates, after orogenic stage, surface weathering and erosion occurs during this stage.
What is Crustal Extension, Block Faulting, & Uplift?
These two National Parks are located in the Blue Ridge Physiographic province.
What is Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains?
Great Basin
Where is Nevada?
This is the rock directly below the fault.
What is the footwall?
This is the trace of the fault on the land surface or where you can see the fault
What is a fault scrap?
The stable, interior portion of continent, usually very old crystalline rocks. The oldest rocks in the world are found here.
What is the Cranton ?
This park has hot water but no thermal deposits.
What is Hot Springs?
Death Valley
Where is California?
A fault where there is lateral movement.
What is a strike-slip?
This is (Exotic Terrane) land added to continents during plate collisions – very common in California.
What is accretionary terrane?
This is the addition of exotic terranes to a continental land mass which is usually caused by intense plate collisions.
What is Tectonic Accretion?
The largest diameter trees in the world are here.
Where is Sequoia and Kings Canyon?
Gran Trenton
Where is Wyoming?
This is when tensional, or extensional, forces pull the rocks apart, create a fault, and the hanging wall falls down relative to the footwall.
What is a normal fault?
This is a mixture of diverse materials scraped off the top of the subducting oceanic plate
What is Mélange?