Buttermilk: This picture is of Buttermilk and Tiehack which is a Cuesta. A Cuesta is formed from a dome mountain and erosion. Cuestas are steep on one side and have a more gradual slope on the other. The steeper side is formed steeper because the rock is softer and erodes away faster than the other side. The dome mountains that Buttermilk came from is the Elk mountains. Red Butte: Red Butte is a fault block mountain. Red Butte was formed when the castle creek fault shifted. The butte was actually turned upside. Usually fault block mountains have big rock faces. Fault block mountains raise up from flat areas. Fault Block mountains occur in lines along faults. Sedimentary Rock: This sedimentary rock is from Red Butte. Sedimentary rocks are an accumulation …show more content…
of sediments. The rock found on red butte is sandstone. These rocks are clastic sedimentary rocks, the sediment is buried deeply, it becomes compacted and cemented to create clastic sedimentary rocks. Horn: This picture is of Pyramid Peak which is a horn. Horns are formed when three or more glaciers erode three or more aretes. Aretes are created from two adjacent glaciers. Horns have steep and sharp peaks. Pyramid peak is also a 14’er. 14’er: This is Pyramid Peak which is a 14’er. It is a horn and located in a glacial valley. A 14’er is a mountain that is 14,000 or more feet in elevation. Colorado is the state with the most 14ers. Pyramid Peak is 14,026 ft. Folded Mountains: This picture is of Aspen mountain, which is a folded mountain. Aspen mountain is a syncline folded mountain. Folded mountains are formed when tectonic plates collide causing areas of land to warp into mountain. There can be large ranges, such as the apls, that are folded mountains. Folded mountains are the most common in the world. Tarn: A tarn is a lake that formed inside a cirque. This tarn is Snowmass Lake below Snowmass Mountain (not the ski area). Cirques are created by heads of glaciers eroding away sediments and creating a bowl like shape. Then water from either the glacier melting, snow melting above the cirque, or other water collecting creates a lake inside the cirque. Stock: This is sopris mountain in Carbondale which is a stock. A stock is formed when a small bubble of magma branches of from a batholith. A batholith is big bubble of magma that creates big domed mountains like the Swatch and Elk mountain ranges. Sopris is the stock of the Elk Mountain range. Glacial Trough: The glacial trough in this picture is maroon creek valley.
This glacial trough was formed by the 3rd out of 4 glaciers in the Aspen area. This glacier could have been anywhere 4 million to 18,000 years ago. Glacial troughs are u-shaped valleys that are carved out when glaciers flow down them. The glacier that ran down this valley’s cirque helped from pyramid peak. Elk Mountains: The mountain range in this picture is the Elk mountains. The Elk mountains are a range of dome mountains. These dome mountains are batholiths which means a large intrusion of magma bulged up into the earth crust and bushed up a bunch of land to create a mountain range. When dome mountains erode, things like cuestas, hogbacks and flatirons are formed. Cirque: This is a picture of highlands bowl. Highlands bowl is a beautiful cirque, with a vertical drop of about 4,300 feet.There are some slopes in this cirque that are 48 degrees steep. This cirque is famous for its skiing and long hike along an arete. And arete is a knife edge ridge that is formed by two adjacent cirques. At the top of highlands bowl you can see views of Pyramid Peak, the Maroon Bells, and Hayden Mountain. Outwash
Plain: This picture is of Mclain Flats which is an outwash plain. Mclain Flats is one of the 4 outwash plains in the aspen area, the rest being starwood, aspen/golf course, and ACES/woody creek. Outwash plains are formed when glaciers melt and many small rivers called braided rivers carry sediment. This sediment then creates a flat plain. Mc lain Flats was formed by the 2nd glacier in Aspen.
18. The image to the right shows a mountain range. Explain how mountain or mountain ranges are formed. (S6E5e, f)
I believe that this drumlin is closely related to erosion and accretion hypotheses of drumlin formation. This is because of its location being close to a steep valley wall.
Before Lake Coeur d’Alene existed, the St. Joe River ran through the present lakebed northward and up through the Rathdrum Prairie before turning west and into the Spokane Valley. About 15,000 years ago, during the peak of the last glacial period, huge glaciers covered much of British Columbia. This ice, which was almost 4,000 feet thick, unimaginably covered all but the highest mountain peaks. The glacier slowly crept down into North Idaho, stopping just north of Coeur d’Alene (Wuerthner, 30, 32).
...e morphed it into the quartzite that is seen surrounding the butte (4). Rocks that undergo this process are called metamorphic rock, which is the same as the rock seen years ago by dinosaurs and other extinct creatures. The quartzite rocks were formerly seafloor sediment that was forced upwards, and then surrounded by lava basalt flows. Once erupted through fissures and floods through out most of the area, lava flow eventually created enough basalt to form a thickness of about 1.8 kilometers (1). All of this basalt flow eventually led to the covering of most mountains, leaving the buttes uncovered. The igneous lava flows and loess is reasons that the Palouse consists of such sprawling hills, and rich soil for farming (2). In result of the lava flows, the Precambrian rock Quartzite was formed. And lastly covered by the glacial loess, which were carried by the wind.
(“Facts about mountains for kids) (“Mountains - geography games and videos for kids.” ) Mountains influence the weather and climate around them immensely. They break up wind flows, so the wind either has to go above or around the mountains. The air that is forced up becomes cooler, and condenses into rain, snow, fog, or mist. (Simon, Seymour pg. 21) The western sides of mountains are typically much wetter than the eastern side where very little rain falls at all. This is caused by the rain shadow effect. (Simon, Seymour pg. 21) Mountains also have the ability to create rain forests and deserts. They store water and then release the water in the form of rivers that help with growth of vegetation. The rivers can be used as drinking water or they can be harnessed to create electricity. (Simon, Seymour pg. 27) Some mountains are more prominent in the world’s geography than others. There is a mountain on Mars, Olympus Mons, that is the tallest mountain on any planet on this solar system. Olympus Mons is 14 miles tall. (Hartston, William) The longest mountains are the Andes and the highest mountains are the Himalayas. (“Facts about mountains for kids”) ( Morris, Neil pg. 28) The Mid-Ocean Ridge is an underwater mountain chain that stretches 47,000 miles long. Not all of these mountains were formed in the same
When riding dirt bikes or any type of off-road vehicle it is some of the funnest time you will ever have. Sometimes it’s just a time to have fun and hang out with your friends but the others time its for racing and be competitive.But it all come down to what you enjoy,I like to do both.This is can be fun with your family,you can go to race and be competitive,and the most funniest part is when you are going fast and you have to keep from wrecking and get hurt.
Glaciers are an integral part of the world’s climate. In fact, as Richard Armstrong of the University of Colorado says, “Glaciers are key indicators in monitoring and detecting climate change” (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, 2003, p. 1). Not only are they an important part of monitoring current climate, they can hold many keys to the past. Glaciers are in fact, “a source of paleoclimate data…” (Meier and Dyurgerov, 1980, p. 37). This paleoclimate data can give geologists information on the conditions that were present at the time of the glaciers birth, as well as the approximate age. This has an important role in the geologic time scale of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. These Glaciers played a role in the carving of the present day Rocky Mountains in Colorado, which will be the primary focus of this paper. In addition, glacial formations will be discussed to give the reader background information and the future of the Glaciers in Colorado will close this paper.
...the only major geologic event in the history of the Appalachians. Several glaciers have covered parts of the Northern Appalachians over the last three million years. (Appalachian tales) The mountains have been there ever since and that is how they were formed.
Periods that the folding occurred in which formed the outlines of the basin as it
Basalt forms due to the partial melting of the layer of the mantle called the asthenosphere. The asthenosphere is the plastic zone of the mantle beneath the rigid lithosphere. Mantle plumes coming from the mesosphere can cause the asthenosphere to melt with heat or even if pressure decreases, which is called decompression melting (Richard 2011). The magma that forms from this melting is mafic magma that solidifies once it reaches the earth’s surface and cools quickly. The above process mainly occurs mainly during intraplate igneous activity which is the main explanation for volcanic activity that occurs a long distance away from a plate boundary. If the tectonic plate above the mantle plume is moving it can create a string of volcanic activity such as in Hawaii. See Fig 2.
...ified rocks are usually inclined due to the structure folding and faulting because of the Paleozoic rock. (Adams, Butts, 23). Charles Butts states, “In its general relations the Paleozoic area of Alabama falls into the large geographic division of the eastern United States known as the Appalachian Highlands which extends from the Coastal Plain on the east to the Interior Lowlands of the Mississippi Valley region on the west.” (Adams, Butts, 43)
Firstly, the landscape around would be dramatically eroded. Whereas a glacier pushes out of the way objects in its path, and erodes the surrounding area through a combination of ablation, plucking and freeze-thaw, the glacier itself commonly hides the features it creates, but when the glacier melts, features such as cirques, horns, arêtes, hanging valleys and waterfalls can be seen. Also, the melt water would itself cut a small v-shape in the base of the U-shaped valley created by the glacier. The stones in the river, and deposition would cause this. Lateral and terminal moraines would also be created after the glacier deposits some of the rocks and dirt that it will have picked up as it moves.
I was raised in an ultra-conservative Pentecostal Holiness church in the Appalachian Mountains. There were snake handlers in our church. It was thought that it tested one's faith to pick up a poisonous snake -- God wouldn't allow it to bite you if you had faith. However, I was always afraid that to pick up a snake would greatly increase God's propensity to smite me via death by snakebite. I did not have enough faith. I've never encountered a miracle -- I've never had a dream come true. I therefore can't help but lack faith.
This National Park was and is still being formed by limestone dissolving in water seeping through the ground. There are two layers of stone located under the topsoil in the hills of southern Kentucky. The upper of which is a sandstone cap that, in certain places, posses a thickness of fifty feet. This layer creates