Small but Mighty
This National Park is the smallest of the parks (even smaller than Ohio's Caesar Creek State Park)
What is Hot Springs National Park?
Normal faulting, dry basins, and alluvial fans compose the vast landscape of this National Park
The parallel arrangement of certain mineral grains that gives the rock a striped appearance (usgs.gov)
What is foliated rock?
The folding of rocks upward in an arch
What is anticline?
Generous funding by this oil-tycoon in the year 1929 lead to the establishment of this park
Who is Rockefeller?
You cannot take a dip in these located within the park, but there are two sites close by you can fully submerge in
What are Hot Springs?
This park has a network of two strike-slip fault zones that links together by a normal fault zone
What is Death Valley National Park?
Metamorphic rocks that do not have a platy or sheet-like structure (usgs.gov)
What is non-foliated rock?
The folding of rocks downward in a trough
What is syncline?
This National Parks hotspot erupted west of the Teton Range five million years ago, triggering earthquakes and causing further uplift along the Teton Range (usgs.gov)
What is Yellowstone National Park?
Groundwater is heated here by this source to approximately 95.4 - 147 degrees Fahrenheit
What is the friction of faults?
Just south of this park known for its interesting trees lies the San Andreas fault
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
Slate, phyllite, schist, and gneiss fall into this category of metamorphic rock
What is foliated rock?
Anticline folding composed of a large upward bulging fold
What is a dome?
Also known as flint, this biologic sedimentary rock formed in the deep ocean
What is chert?
The San Gregorio Fault runs slightly southeast of park boundaries (nps.gov)
What is Redwood National Park?
Quartzite and marble fall into this category of metamorphic rock
What is non-foliated rock?
A downward bulging syncline fold
What is a basin?
This type of rock in the Teton Range is about 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old (usgs.gov)
What is crystalline rock?
Less dissolved constituents lead to this park lacking these geologic feature in the hot springs
What are mineral deposits?
Block faulting is responsible for this grand landscape
What is Grand Teton National Park?
Metamorphic rock creates a zebra striped pattern in the canyon walls of Marble Canyon within this National Park (nps.gov)
What is Death Valley?
Although not as common as other type of folding, this particular type occurs when one side of rock layers fold down.
What is monocline?
The last major earthquakes to occur along this fault were 4,800 and 8,000 years ago, but this fault is still active and can produce major earthquakes (usgs.gov)
What is the Teton Fault?