It Wasn't My Fault, I Swear!
It is a fracture in bedrock along which movement has taken place.
What is a fault?
A fault divides rock into two of these.
What is a fault block?
At 282 feet below sea level, this is the lowest point in North America.
What is Death Valley?
A heap of ice that moves under its own weight.
What is Glacier?
National park used as the title for this 1987 U2 studio album.
What is Joshua Tree?
It is caused by tensional force, which moves the hanging wall down in relation to the footwall.
What is a normal fault?
In a normal fault, this block is the lower of the two.
What is the footwall?
What is California and Nevada?
It is in mountainous terrain and is confined to valleys.
What is Alpine Glaciation?
What is Redwood National Park?
This is when two blocks slide past each other, resulting in lateral displacement.
What is a strike-slip fault?
It is the compass direction of a line formed by the intersection of an inclined plane with a horizontal plane.
What is a strike?
These are smooth, curved surfaces, which form north-northwestward-plunging elongate domes on the east side of Death Valley.
What are turtlebacks?
Ice sheets that cover continental land masses and they flow from a high point outward in a flat terrain.
What is Continental Glaciation?
This classic country band shares their name with this national park found in western Virginia.
What is Shenandoah?
The absence of these can be a significant clue for geologists in trying to determine the presence of a fault line.
What are foothills?
In reverse faulting, this block is the higher of the two.
What is the hanging wall block?
The Ubehebe Crater was formed by this natural event.
What is a volcanic explosion?
Scratches that are made as glacial rocks that can be dragged along bedrock?
What is Striations?
Dolly Parton built her famous theme park, Dollywood, just north of this great national park.
What is Great Smoky Mountain National Park?
Tensional forces produced this fault system that can be found in Northwest Wyoming.
What is the Teton Fault System?
This is the angle of the Grand Teton fault which dips to the east.
What is 50 degrees?
In 2014, the mystery of the movement of these objects across the dry lakebed was finally solved.
What are rocks in Racetrack Playa?
Depressions that are formed by isolatedlarge ice blocks that prevent the infill of sediments when it is melting.
What are Kettles?
Johnny Cash, Al Green, and Ne-Yo are all from this state that is also famous for Hot Springs National Park.
What is Arkansas?