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Number of National Parks as of today.
What is 58
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“Island Mountain” of granite in Joshua Tree National Park.
What is Inselberg?
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World reknown for large tracts of deciduous and coniferous forests.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
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Park is inhabited by seals and sea lions, island fox, sea birds, nine endangered plant species.
What is Channel Islands National Park?
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Metamorphosed shale; fine-grained; splits into flat sheets.
What is slate?
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World famous for giant saguaro cactus.
What is Saguaro National Park?
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Hottest, driest, lowest land in the US.
What is Death Valley National Park?
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Park is 307 miles long and skinny along Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is a Shenandoah National Park?
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Redwoods can be up to 367 feet high.
What is the tallest tree on earth?
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The alignment of flat crystal flakes of a rock under pressure into parallel sheets.
What is foliation?
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Metamorphosed sandstone.
What is Quartzite?
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Trace of fault on land surface, steeper face of slopes, lighter colored surfaces (fresh exposures), cut across stream erosion features.
What is Fault scarp?
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Trace or remain of life of animals with a backbone such as dinosaur, crocodiles, mammals.
What is Vertebrate Fossils
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Mixture of diverse material scraped off the top of the subducting oceanic plate.
What is Melange’?
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Further metamorphism of slate; visible cleavage surfaces.
What is Schist?
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Metamorphosed limestone or dolomite.
What is marble?
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Otherwise known as salt.
What is halite?
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Mercury sulfide mineral that was formed from hot groundwater solution.
What is Cinnabar?
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Land added to continents during plate collisions
What is Accretionary Terrane
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Foliated and Non-Foliated.
What is types if metamorphic rocks?
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Alternating bands of light and dark minerals.
What is Gneiss?
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Highest point in lower 48 states, is located in Sequoia National Park, California.
What is Mt. Whitney (14,494 feet)?
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Chemical sedimentary rock formed in deep ocean, silica rich formed by accumulations of siliceous plankton skeletons.
What is Chert?
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Slightly metamorphosed chert with cryptocrystalline structure.
What is Novaculite ?
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Fractures along which no displacement has occurred.
What is joints?