National Parks
This National Park is known for its hot springs and bathhouses
What is Hot Springs National Park
Rocks are folded upward like an arch. Older rocks are in the middle of the arch and get younger as you move from the fold axis
What is a Anticline Fold
Indication that ice was flowing down a valley
What are Striations
Stable, interior portion of a continent (mainly made of old crystalline rocks)
What are Cratons
Groundwater is heated along the fault then propelled upward by this
What is heat
This National Park is the hottest, driest, and lowest land in the US
What is Death Valley National Park
Rocks are folded downward in a pattern. The younger rocks are in the middle.
What is a Syncline Fold
Rounded, slabs of exfoliated granite
What are Granite Domes
thick sedimentary or volcanic rock is deposited
What is the Accumulation Stage
In this National Park, water has less disolved constitutes than in most other National Parks (won't cause plumbing or form deposits)
What is Hot Springs National Park
This National Park has an elevation range that causes the climate to change from desert to alpine
Forces push the rocks together, and the hanging wall is pushed up relative to the footwall. This results in the shortening of the crust.
What is Reverse and Thrust Faulting
Remnants of exfoliated granite parallel to the surface
What are Sheets of Granite
The mountain-building stage that occurs during the first mountain-building step, this causes folding and faulting
What is the Orogenic Stage
Groundwater infiltrates through these
What are Mountains, Cherts, and Novaculite
This National Park contains significant accretionary terrane
What is Redwood National Park
Lateral movement, most common at transform boundaries
What is a Strike-Slip Fault
Land added to a continent after plates collide
What is Accretionary Terrane
The addition of exotic terranes to a continental land mass (usually caused by intense plate collisions)
What is Tectonic Accretion
Groundwater takes this amount of years to reach the surface
What is about 20 years
This National Park and feature has an elevation range from 1,100 to 6,643 feet (highest point in TN)
What is Clingman's Dome in Great Smokey Mountains National Park
Only one side of a rock layer is folded down (in the Colorado Plateau)
What is a Monocline Fold
A mixture of many different materials scraped off the top of a subducting oceanic plate
What is a Mélange
This occurs during the isostatic rebound of crustal plates, surface weathering, and erosion occurs during this
What is the Crustal Extension, Block Faulting, and Uplift Stage
Groundwater takes this amount of years to infiltrate to the fault
What is about 4,400 years