Mountain Building
What are the three stages of mountain building?
Accumulation, orogenic, crustal extension and block faulting.
What is the name of a fold that shapes upwards in an arch?
Anticline.
In which state is Grand Teton National Park located?
Wyoming.
What is the name of the landscape made of alternating mountain ranges and valleys in the western U.S.?
The Basin and Range province.
What physiographic province are Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah National Parks located in?
The Blue Ridge province.
What is the old, stable interior part of a continent called?
The craton.
What kind of fault has the hanging wall moving downward relative to the footwall?
Normal fault.
What major river runs through Grand Teton National Park?
The Snake River.
What are fan-shaped deposits of sediment found at mountain fronts called?
Alluvial fans.
What makes Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains NP so fertile and flat?
It is underlain by limestone.
What is the process by which continents grow as tectonic plates collide and add new material?
Tectonic accretion.
What is a hanging wall on a fault?
The rock directly above the fault.
What geologic feature in Grand Teton National Park reveals its history of uplift and erosion over millions of years?
The exposed Precambrian metamorphic and igneous rocks of the Teton Range.
What is a flat, dry lakebed found in desert basins called?
A playa or playa lake.
What is Shenandoah National Park's main structural feature explained by geologic cross-sections?
Thrust faulting.
What type of geologic structure includes features like domes and basins?
Large-scale geologic structures.
What are the three main types of faults?
Normal, reverse and thrust, and strike-slip.
Which national park has the lowest elevation in the U.S.?
Death Valley National Park.
What is a metamorphic core complex, and where is it found?
Uplifted and eroded deep crustal rocks, found in the Basin and Range mountains.
What causes chemical erosion in the Great Smoky Mountains?
High rainfall and snow at high elevations.
What is the difference between a fold and a fault?
A fold is the bending of rock, while a fault is the breaking displacement of rock.
What is the sequence of metamorphosed shale?
Shale, Schist, Gneiss.
What type of fault structure forms the steep mountain face of the Tetons?
A fault scarp formed along a normal fault.
Which two national parks in California are located in the Basin and Range province?
Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Parks.
Which park is in Arkansas, has hot groundwater but little dissolved minerals, and lies on faults?
Hot Springs National Park.