Building Mountains
The three key stages that summarize the development of a mountain system.
What is Accumulation, Orogeny, and Uplift with Erosion?
The type of fault where the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.
What is a normal fault?
The Wyoming park that features a fault scarp and steep relief due to block faulting.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
The fan-shaped deposits that form where steep mountain streams slow down.
What are alluvial fans?
The eastern park known for rainfall, waterfalls, and Blue Ridge geology.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
The term for the old, stable core of a continent.
What is The Craton?
The type of fault that occurs when the hanging wall is pushed up over the footwall.
What is a reverse fault?
The California peak in Sequoia National Park that is the tallest in the lower 48 states.
What is Mount Whitney?
The name for a temporary desert lake in a closed basin.
What is a playa lake?
The valley in the Smokies known for its limestone bedrock and historical settlement.
What is Cades Cove?
The tectonic process through which continents grow over time.
What is crustal accretion?
The type of fold that forms an arch-like, upward shape.
What is an anticline?
The desert national park that lies below sea level and is known for its tectonic activity.
What is Death Valley National Park?
The geologic term for deep crustal rocks exposed by uplift and extension.
What is a metamorphic core complex?
The Virginia park that showcases folded and faulted Blue Ridge rocks.
What is Shenandoah National Park?
The type of stress that results in folds like anticlines and synclines.
What is Compression?
The distinction between a joint and a fault.
What is that joints have no displacement, whereas faults do?
The cave system with flat ceilings and floors due to horizontal sedimentary layers.
What is Lehman Caves in Great Basin National Park?
The desert park in California located in the Basin and Range province known for its granitic domes.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
The three physiographic provinces within the Appalachian Mountains.
What are the Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge, and Piedmont provinces?
The large-scale landforms that result from vertical deformation of the crust.
What are Domes and Basins?
The type of fault that involves mostly horizontal motion between rock bodies.
What is a strike-slip fault?
These California parks that sit in the Sierra Nevada and are known for fault-block mountains and massive trees.
What are Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks?
The sequence that describes the metamorphism of shale.
What is shale, slate, schist, and gneiss?
The natural processes that shape the landscape of the eastern mountains through weathering and erosion.
What are chemical weathering and precipitation-driven erosion?