Module 6 Terms
Stable interior portion of continent, usually very old crystalline rocks
What is Craton?
It's the state in which Grand Teton is located.
What is Wyoming?
It's the state that Death Valley is located in.
What is California?
It's the type of climate in the Grand Basin.
What is arid to semi arid?
They are the states where Great Smoky Mountains is located.
What are Tennessee and North Carolina?
addition of exotic trains to a continental landmass, usually by intense plate collisions
Can be found in California, Oregon, Washington, Maine
What is Tectonic Accretion?
It's the national park just north of Grand Teton.
What is Yellowstone?
It's the desert that contains Death Valley.
What is the Mojave?
It's the region where the Great Basin is located.
What is eastern Nevada?
It's the place within the park that is the highest point in Tennessee.
What is Clingman's Dome?
land added to continents during plate collisions
What is Accretionary Terrane?
It's the valley where Grand Teton is located.
What is the Snake River Valley?
It's when Death Valley was established as a national park.
What is 1994?
What kind of complex do most of the mounds in the basin and range province have?
What is a metamorphic core complex?
It's the year when Great Smoky Mountains was established as a national park.
What is 1934?
mixture of diverse material scraped off the top of the subducting oceanic plate
What is Melange?
It's the period when weathering, erosion, and glaciation occurred at Grand Teton.
What is the Cenozoic?
It's the age of the basement rocks in death valley.
What is precambrian?
Due to low night temperatures, rocks are often broken through this process.
What is frost wedging?
It's an accessible waterfall flowing over precambrian sandstone.
What is Laurel Falls?
core of low-grade Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks folded over each other, and there is extensive metamorphism, folding, and low angle faulting
What is Metamorphic core complex?
It's the kind of geologic structure that makes up the Grand Tetons.
What are block faults?
It's the trace of a fault on the lands surface.
What is fault scarp?
It's when Great Basin was established as a National Park.
What is 1986?
It's the famous hiking route that travels through the park.
What is the Appalachian Trail?