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Stages of Major Mountain Belt Building and continental growth
Folds and faults
Qualities of National Parks
Rocks
Miscellaneous
100
The stage in which sedimentary or volcanic rock are deposited
What is the accumulation stage?
100
Term for the folding of rocks in an upward arch
What is an anticline
100
This national park is known for having the hottest, driest, and lowest land in the US.
What is Death Valley National Park
100
Rocks with no dominant crystal orientation
What are Foliated Metamorphic Rocks
100
Established as a Nation Park in 1994, this is the location of the hottest, driest, lowest land in the United States.
What is Death Valley National Park
200
The stage that begins when accumulation occurs and causes folding and faulting
What is the orogenic stage?
200
Term for a downward bulging fold
What is a basin?
200
This mountain, located in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park is the highest point in the lower 48 states
What is Mt. Whitney
200
Non-Foliated Metamorphic Rocks
What are no dominant crystal orientation
200
National Park located in California that is home many redwood trees.
What Is Redwood National Park
300
The stage after the orogenic stage, in which surface weathering and erosion occur
What is crustal extension, block faulting and uplift?
300
Fractures in the crust in which movement has occurred
What are faults?
300
These trees are the tallest trees on earth, measuring up to 367 feet high.
What are redwoods
300
Rocks with no dominant crystal orientation
What are non-foliated metamorphic rocks
300
Chemical sedimentary rock formed in deep ocean, silica Richard for,ed by the accumulation of siliceous plankton skeletons
What is chert?
400
The stable, interior portion of continent, normally composed of crystalline rocks
What is a craton
400
An example of a strike-slip fault
What is San Andreas Fault?
400
This National Park is home to Snake River Valley
What is Grand Teton National Park
400
Coarse-grained igneous Rock
What is granite
500
The addition of exotic terranes to a continental land mass usually caused by intense plate collisions
What is tectonic accretion?
500
Characterized by the hanging wall moving downward relative to the footwall
What is normal faulting?
500
Gneiss, schist, and slate all come from this parent rock
What is shale
500
foliated metamorphic Rocks
What is gneiss
500
National Park that experienced canyon cutting and basin filling in the Cenozoic era
What is Big Bend Natiomal Park