Complex Mountain Formation
This fold, different from anticlines (upward arch) and synclines (downward trough), has only one side of the rock layers folded down.
What is a monocline?
This desert succulent plant is another important piece of vegetation in Joshua Trees National Park.
What are ocotillo bushes?
This is the highest point in the lower 48 states at 14,505 feet.
What is Mount Whitney?
This national park is the smallest in the world at 9 mi^2 and unique for its groundwater being heated by fault friction.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
This national park is the most visited in the US and was set aside for its biodiversity.
What is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
This major mountain-building stage involves active mountain building, causes folding and faulting, and has a popular example of Grand Teton National Park.
What is the orogenic stage?
This tree in Grand Basin National Park was once thought to be the oldest in the world until scientists took samples shortly after its passing in the 1950s.
What is Bristlecone Pine?
This is the lowest place in North America known for salty groundwater deposits lining the spring.
What is Bad Basin?
This is the tallest tree in the world (379.1 ft), located in Redwood National Park.
What is Hyperion?
This mountain range, including the Shenandoah River flowing through it, contains Precambrian crystalline rocks thrust faulted over Paleozoic sedimentary rocks.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains?
This is the main difference between folding and faulting.
What is the bending of rocks vs. breaking and displacing rocks?
This important geological feature in Death Valley indicates where a fault is either through a trace or physical visibility of the fault.
What are fault scarps?
These are known for being the largest (most massive) trees in the world, including General Sherman, which has a national park named after them.
What are Sequoias?
This common geologic feature in California is land added to continents during plate collisions.
What are accretionary terranes?
This Precambrian submarine, lying under the ocean in Shenandoah National Park, is known for its lava flow that was once metamorphosed into greenstone.
What is Big Meadows?
This continent-growing crystalline rock contains some of the oldest rocks in the world.
What is Craton?
This important geological process involves Cenozoic granite in Joshua Tree National Park and creates Inselbergs.
What is Spheroidal Weathering?
This lake, the largest in Grand Teton, contains evidence of alpine glaciation including U-shaped valleys, cirque glaciers, aretes, and horns.
What is Jackson Lake?
This mixture of diverse materials is scraped off the top of a subducting oceanic plate.
What is a Mélange?
Outside of the lush vegetation in Shenandoah, the few rock outcrops are usually covered with these 2 grasses.
What is lichen or moss?
These are the 3 stages of major mountain building.
What is 1. Accumulation, 2. Orogenic, and 3. Crustal Extension, Block Faulting, and Uplift?
This unique topographical feature is in most of the mountains in the Basin and Range Physiographic Province.
What is a metamorphic core complex of crystalline rocks?
This geologic structure is the most significant in Grand Teton National Park.
What is the range of fault block mountains known as the Grand Tetons?
This biologic sedimentary rock forms from the accumulation of billions of tiny plankton skeletons made of silica and metamorphosizes into novaculite under intense pressure.
What is chert?
This stressed natural feature distinguishes the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, including large tracts of deciduous and coniferous forests.
What is vegetation?