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Stages of Mountain Building
Deformation of Rocks
Rock Types
Places located in National Parks
Terms
100
The stage where surface weathering and erosion occur.
What is Crustal Extension, block faulting and uplift.
100
The breaking of rock and the source of most earthquakes
What is Faulting
100
Metamorphosed sandstone
What is Quartzite
100
Charlies Bunnion
What is Great Smoky National Park
100
Anitcline, Syncline, Monocline
What is folding
200
The stable, interior portion of continent.
What is Craton
200
The bending of rock
What is Folding
200
Alternating bands of light and dark minerals
What is Gneiss
200
Lehman Cave
What is Great Basin National Park
200
Caused by crust movement, squeezed from certain directions
What is Compression
300
The stage where a great thickness of sedimentary or volcanic rock is deposited
What is the Accumulation Stage
300
The rock that is directly above the fault line
What is the Hanging Wall
300
Metamorphosed shale; fine-grained; splits into flat sheets
What is Shale
300
Inselberg "Island Mountain"
What is Joshua Tree National Park
300
Foliated and Non-Foliated are textures of
What is Metamorphic Rock Textures
400
The addition of tectonic terranes to a continental land mass.
What is Tectonic Accretion
400
Fractures in rock where no displacement has occurred
What are joints
400
Coarse-grained igneous
What is Granite
400
Mt. Whitney
What is Sequoia National Park
400
dry, flat area at lowest part of undrained desert basin
What is a playa
500
The mountain building stage
What is the Orogenic Stage
500
A fault that results from compressional forces pushing blocks of rock together.
What is Reverse Faulting
500
Metamorphosed limestone or dolomite
What is Marble
500
Big Meadow
What is Shenandoah National Park
500
cone-shaped deposit of sediment crossed and built up by streams
What is alluvial fan