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Located just outside of Moab, Utah, the Arches National Park was underwater 300 million years ago. After the seas dried up, they left thousands of feet of salt. Soon, the layers of salt were covered in sand and other sediments. All of the sediments pressed together and formed sedimentary rock. The red rocks were deposited over millions of years to be the way they are now. During those years, erosion has shaped them into what they look like now. Soon, the water flowed through and didn’t give the top rock any support and collapsed. Caused by erosion, the water flowed through narrow cracks and made canyons.

While at Yosemite, why not visit a rockslide? Slide Mountain is a very interesting area to visit. It is located in the east-northern part of the park. These rockslides are part of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The very steep bank located at the bottom of Slide Mountain is 3230 meters in elevation. The glacial polish located in the rockslide indicates that Slide Mountain was once filled with glaciers that eroded the mountain to make it so steep. This is such a wonderful natural-made masterpiece to visit for those interested in the geology of Yosemite. An extremely enjoyable activity to do while you are there is to rock climb Slide Mountain.

The oldest rocks found in the Death Valley region were formed in the Precambrian time period no more than 1.8 billion years ago during the latter half of the Proterozoic Eon. The rocks are seen on the steep face of the Black Mountains above the current area of Badwater and were formed via deposits of mud and sand from an ancient volcanic mountain belt. Sometime between 1.8 and 1.7 billion years ago, the volcanic and sedimentary rocks were severely altered when chemical or structural changes occurred because of intense heat or pressure from the Earth's core. Because of this process, any fossilized information about the region was lost making it impossible to truly understand the origin of the region. There is some debate on whether basalt or schist was the original and dominate rock in the region before it was transformed into contorted gneiss, but again, there is no way to prove either theory.

railroad tracks. The metal wheels of the cars roll on a flat metal strip, about 4 to 6 inches across.

On April 29, 1903 30 million cubic meters of rock fell from the east face of Turtle Mountain in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Over 70 people in the town of Frank were killed as well as the entrance to the Frank mine being blocked with miners inside. This landslide is one of the largest slides that has eyewitnesses as well as a strong scientific study. (Alberta Geological Survey, 2013)

The tracks have also gone through a serious change. When NASCAR was born they raced on Sand and asphalt. The first Daytona 500 was a mixed terrain track consisting a stretch of the Daytona beach a closed portion of the highway. The tracks have multiple safety features to keep both the Drivers and the Fans safe during a crash.

Powerful forces of the earth cause a landmass to slide under the water. The hot water from the floor of the ocean then melted the rock from the land, forming granite rocks (U.S. Department of the Interior). Mesozoic volcanic and sedimentary rock are scattered through Sierra Nevada Batholith, which covered most of the park during the Jurassic and Cretaceous times (Harris). Weathering and the batholithic makeup impact the exterior of the landforms within these national parks. Yosemite National Park has a very similar geological history compared to the Sequoia and King Canyon National parks, due to the fact that they all lie in the Sierra Nevada’s peak and western slopes (Harris). When it comes to lithospheric extension in the Death Valley Region, during the time of rapid growth, the plates in this region rapidly expanded. In the region of the Sequoia and King Canyon national park the plates did not expand rapidly, thus indicating that more extension occurred in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon region (Jones). Under the surface, there are many marble caves that are endemic to the area (U.S. Department of the Interior). It is clear that natural forces like these have the ability to create beautiful and interesting geology. The description of the tectonic plates would be an ocean continent subduction zone (U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey). This occurs because of the above process. A specific rock located in the national park is the Moro Rock. Moro rock is a large granite rock that is shaped like a dome. It was made by the process of exfoliation that has to do with the layers of granite expanding over time (U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey). The exfoliation process creates many of the rock features located in the park. This exfoliation process is the same one that creates many of

that places you in the mud slides and the avalanches of boulders. Although there was a major


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His racetrack was made of clay instead of the normal sandy substances. He also had his races ran counterclockwise, other traditional races are ran. ( Katte pg 14-16 )

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