Faulting
The breaking and/or displacement of rocks. Movement of surrounding rocks causes fractures in the crust, which can be caused by tectonic forces and is a source of earthquakes.
What is faulting?
This is the age of rocks in the center of an anticline of rock.
What are the oldest rocks?
Sharp ridges which were formed by glaciers
What are Aretes?
This National Park contains Snake River Valley, a U-shaped valley.
What is Grand Teton?
The era that granite batholiths intruded in Death Valley National Park.
What is Mesozoic?
The rock located directly above the fault.
What is a hanging wall?
This is the age of rocks in the middle of the syncline of rock.
What are the youngest rocks?
A flat sandy area lacking deposits of salt.
What is a playa?
This is the driest, hottest, lowest landmass in the United States, located in the Mojave Desert.
What is Death Valley?
In the Cenozoic era, there was an intrusion of diorite and granite at this National Park. Basaltic eruptions, erosion, faulting, and uplift also occurred in this era.
What is Joshua Tree?
The surface of the fault.
What is a fault plane?
These rocks are folded upward making an arch, where the oldest rocks are located in the center and fold along the axis.
What is anticline?
These are extremely old crystalline rocks, some of the oldest rocks on earth. They are stable and interior portions of the continent.
What is craton?
The National Park containing bath houses and hot springs that lack thermal deposits.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
This mountain, located in California's Sequoia National Park, is the highest point in the "lower 48" states of the United States.
What is Mount Whitney?
When Hanging walls move up relative to the footwall.
What is reverse faulting?
This is when one side of the rock layers is folded down.
What is Monocline?
This is an additive of exotic terranes to a continent usually caused by major plate collisions.
What is tectonic accretion?
The highest point in North America, which is located in Denali National Park.
What is Mount McKinley?
This National Park is home to a fault scarp, which is a trace of a fault on the land's surface.
What is Death Valley National Park?
Another name for the strike-slip fault.
What is San Andreas fault?
The type of fold that is located in Sideling Hill, Maryland.
What is syncline?
These are the three stages of major mountain belt building.
What are the accumulation stage, orogenic stage, and crustal extension, block faulting, and uplift stage?
World renown for large tracts of deciduous and coniferous forest.
What is Great Rocky Mountain National Park?
When Redwood National park had coastal erosion and tectonism.
What is Cenozoic?