Mountain Building
Stage where layers of sedimentary and volcanic rock build up.
What is Accumulation?
A fold shaped like an arch with oldest rocks in the center.
What is an Anticline?
This Wyoming park has steep mountains with no foothills.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
Rounded granite boulders in Joshua Tree form from this type of weathering.
What is Spheroidal Weathering?
The massive trees in Sequoia can live up to 4000 years.
What are Giant Sequoias?
Stage involves folding and faulting that forms mountains.
What is the Orogenic stage?
A fold shaped like a trough with youngest rocks in the center.
What is a Syncline?
Sharp ridges formed by glaciers in Grand Teton.
What are Aretes?
Isolated rock formations that look like islands in Joshua Tree.
What are Inselbergs?
This park is home to the tallest trees in the world.
What is Redwood National Park?
Stage includes uplift, crustal stretching, and erosion.
What is Extension and Uplift?
A fault where rocks pull apart and the hanging wall drops.
What is a Normal Fault?
This Nevada park has no drainage to the ocean.
What is the Great Basin National Park?
The lowest point in North America, located in Death Valley.
What is the Badwater Basin?
Land added to continents from oceanic material at Redwood.
What is Accretionary terrane?
The stable, oldest part of a continent.
What is a Craton?
A faulth caused by compression that pushes rock upward.
What is a Reverse Fault?
Fan-shaped deposits at the base of mountains in Basin and Range areas.
What are Alluvial Fans?
Flat, dry lake beds covered in salt in Death Valley.
What are Playas?
The Appalachian park formed through multiple orogeny's like the Alleghenian.
What is Shenandoah National Park?
Process of adding land to a continent through collisions or subduction.
What is Tectonic Accretion?
A fault with side-to-side motion, like the San Andreas Fault.
What is a Strike-Slip Fault?
Freeze-thaw process that breaks rock apart in cold climates.
What is Frost Wedging?
Desert formed when mountains block rain, creating dray conditions.
What is a Rain Shadow desert?
This very popular park is known for biodiversity and strong chemical weathering.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?