A. INTRODUCTION
1. Establishment of National Parks and Monuments
a) Yellowstone--the first National Park: March 1, 1872
b) Other legislative events: 1878-1916
c) National Park Service today
2. Geologic materials and processes
a) What is Geology
b) Earth materials: minerals and rocks
c) Igneous rocks and processes
d) Sedimentary rocks and processes
e) Metamorphic rocks and processes
f) Geologic processes: shapers of the land
1) volcanism
2) mountain building
3) weathering
4) stream erosion
5) wave erosion
6) glaciation
7) wind erosion
8) ground water
3. Geologic Time
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B. FORMED BY STREAM EROSION AND WEATHERING
1. Grand Canyon National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) stream erosion: the Grand Canyon
2) mass wasting
3) differential weathering
4) unconformities
d) geologic history
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2. Zion National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) stream erosion
2) mass wasting
3) structural control
4) weathering
d) geologic history
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3. Bryce Canyon National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) stream erosion
2) differential weathering
3) structural features
d) geologic history
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4. Arches National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) stream erosion
2) differential weathering
3) structural features
4) the arches
5) salt anticline (graben)
d) geologic history
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5. Mesa Verde National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) the cuesta
2) erosional features
a) the mesa
b) the canyons
3) weathering
4) water supply
5) the dwellings
d) geologic history
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C. FORMED BY GLACIERS
1. Glacier National Park
a) vital statistics
1)location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) glacial erosion
2) glacial deposits
3) mass movement
4) thrust fault
5) continental divide
6) sedimentary features
7) Precambrian fossils
8) igneous activity
d) geologic history
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2. Yosemite National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) exfoliation domes
2) fractures and joints
3) glacial features
d) geologic history
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D. FORMED BY IGNEOUS ACTIVITY
1. Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument (U.S. Forest Service)
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) the volcano as a landform
2) landslides
3) lava tube
d) geologic history
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2. Crater Lake National
Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) the caldera
2) glacial features
d) geologic history
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3. Yellowstone National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) geysers and related phenomena
2) lava flows
3) pyroclastics and fossil forests
4) calderas
5) stream valleys and waterfalls
6) glacial features
7) landslides
d) geologic history
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4. Sunset Crater National Monument
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) cinder cone
2) lava flows
3) lava tube
d) geologic history
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5. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) active shield volcano
2) fault scarps
3) lava flows
4) tree molds and footprints in volcanic rocks
5) wave-cut erosional features
6) stream valleys and waterfalls
7) mudflows
8) green-sand (olivine) beach
d) geologic history
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E. FORMED BY MOUNTAIN BUILDING AND UPLIFT
1. Great Smoky Mountain National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) basement complex
2) folded rocks
3) thrust fault features
4) metamorphic zones
5) granitization
6) sedimentary features
d) geologic history
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2. Grand Teton National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) fault-block mountains
2) cross-cutting relationships
3) continental divide
4) glacial features
d) geologic history
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F. FORMED BY GROUND WATER
1. Mammoth Cave National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) development of caves by ground water
2) cave deposits
3) cave life
4) surface features (Karst topography)
d) geologic history
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2. Petrified Forest National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) petrification of wood by ground water
2) fossils
3) badlands topography: the Painted Desert
d) geologic history
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G. FORMED BY WAVES AND WIND
1. Acadia National Park
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) igneous intrusions
2) glacial erosion
3) wave activity
d) geologic history
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2. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
a) vital statistics
1) location
2) size
3) when established
b) human history
1) prehistoric
2) historic
c) geologic features
1) glacial features
2) wave activity
3) wind activity: the dunes
d) geologic history