Folds vs Faults
A fold is when rock ___
bends
NM stands for
National Monument
Grand Teton is located in
Wyoming
What province is Joshua Tree National Park in?
Basin and Range Physiographic Province.
form at the base of the mountains due to the abrupt change in gradient as the streams hit the flat valley floor and deposit a bunch of sediment here.
Alluvial fans
What are the two main types of folds?
Anticlines and Synclines
The mountain-building stage which begins while accumulation occurs, causes folding and faulting.
Orogenic Stage
When was the landscape sculpted by alpine glaciers?
Cenozoic Era
What is the oldest tree in the world?
Bristlecone Pine Tree
What is a playa?
a flat, sandy area with or without salt deposits.
The ____ rock is in the middle of a syncline fold
Youngest
The stable, interior portion of continent, usually very old crystalline rocks
Craton
What is the largest lake in Grand Teton National Park
Jackson Lake
What is the lowest point in America?
Badwater Basin
tensional forces in the Earth's crust cause large blocks of rock to move vertically
Block faulting
What causes reverse faults?
Compressional forces pushing the rocks together.
The addition of exotic terranes to a continental land mass which is usually caused by intense plate collisions.
Tectonic Accretion
What is most of the bedrock in Grand Teton made of?
Precambrian Crystalline Rocks
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks made of?
Glaciated Granite
The trace of fault on the land surface, steeper face of slopes, lighter colored surfaces, cut across stream erosion features.
Fault Scarp
What are Joints?
Fractures and cracks in the earth's surface that have no displacement
States where oceanic crust subducts under continental crust
California, Oregon, and Washington.
How tall is Grand Teton
13,776ft
What is the land underneath of Redwood National Park
Accretionary Terrane
How were the Lehman Caves formed?
groundwater dissolving the Paleozoic limestone