Formation & Creation
Fractures or cracks in the Earth’s surface where there is no displacement.
What is a joint?
Bending of rock.
What is a fold?
A triangle-shaped deposit of gravel, sand, and sediment.
What are alluvial fans?
The era Grand Teton's mountain building occurred.
What occurred in the Cenozoic Era of Grand Tetons National Park?
The Grand Tetons has a river meandering around its base.
What is Snake River?
Where the continent gains land on tectonically active margins (where oceanic subducts under continental plates and/or there is continent collision).
What is tectonic accretion?
Fold in shape of an arch.
What's an anticline fold?
Bristlecone pine trees
What are the oldest trees in the world?
The National Park with the tallest trees.
What is Redwood National Park?
A National Park that is popular for filming movies due to its proximity to Holleywood.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
Craton
What is the old, stable, interior part of the continent?
Fold in downward shape, like a trough.
What's a syncline fold?
The rock directly above a fault.
What's a hanging wall?
A National Park known for filming, located in California.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
The National Park in the hottest, driest part of the United States.
What is Death Valley National Park?
Accumulation stage, Orogenic stage, and Crustal extension, block faulting, uplifting stage.
What are the 3 stages of mountain building?
Breaking of rock with some fort of displacement.
What is a fault?
The rock directly beneath a fault.
What's a footwall?
This park has the highest mountain in the lower 48 states.
What is Sequoia National Park (Mt. Whitney)?
A very deep canyon and its absence of roads in a relatively undeveloped area.
What is King Canyon?
Shale is metamorphosed to slate, then schist, then gneiss.
What is the shale metamorphosis process?
Normal, Thrust/Reverse, and Strike-Slip faulting.
What are the 3 types of faults?
Groundwater has no thermal deposits and is heated by movement along faults.
Describe Hot Springs National Park's groundwater.
Settlers frequently settled here because of the flat, fertile valley underlain by limestone.
Why did settlers frequent Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountain National Park?
The smallest National Park.
What is Hot Springs National Park?