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Geology of National Parks
Geology 203
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Geology
Undergraduate 2
09/20/2012

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Term
Earth's plates ____ through time
Definition
Change configurations
Term
Our present day plates are made up of ______ ?
Definition
Both continental crust and ocean crust
Term
Tennessee lays on which plate?
Definition
The North American
Term
Divergent Plate Boundaries
Definition
Plates are pulling apart.
Crust is being made.
Term
Convergent Plate Boundaries
Definition
Plates are coming together (colliding).
Crust is being destroyed.
Term
Transform Plate Boundaries
Definition
Plates slide by each other.
Term
Unconformities?
Definition
Missing portion of the Geologic Record.
(Angular Uncomformity, Disconrmity, Nonconformity)
Term
The Earth is made up of 3 distinctive layers. What are they?
Definition
Crust, Mantle, Core
Term
Lilthosphere is created?
Definition
Divergent (plates move away)
Term
Subduction Zone
Definition
The long, narrow zone where the two plates meet.
(convergent plate boundaries)
Term
Subduction
Definition
One plate is pulled beneath another -->forming a deep trench.
Term
Lithosphere is destroyed
Definition
convergent (plates move toward one another)
Term
Hotspot
Definition
Plate rides over plume of hot mantle.
Think lava lamp
Creates a line of volcanoes.
Term
Continental Rift,
Ancient Continental Rift,
Passive Continental Margin,
Ancient Passive Continental Margin
Definition
Divergent Plate Boundaries
Term
Continental Rift stage
Definition
Divergent Plate Boundaries
Term
Atlantic Plain Province
Definition
Wide, parallel bands of YOUNG ROCK
topographically low
cross-cute by recent deposits of the Mississippi river.

horizontal rock layering position
passive margin tectonic setting
Term
Atlantic Plain has a ____ rock layer position and a ______ tectonic setter.
Definition
horizontal

passive
Term
Characteristics of National Parks and Seashores along Passive Continental Margins
Definition
Not much tectonic acitivy presently, above zone of transiion from thnk continental
Term
appalachian highlands & interior highlands
Definition
narrow, parrallel
curiving bands of steeply inclined old rock
highly deformed in most places
mix of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
topographically high
tectonic setting: CONVERGENT MOUNTAIN BELT
Term
blue ridge
Definition
bedstone metamorphic granite
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