Question

Download the BringingItTogether.pdf file. In the Geologic Event/Feature column, write one event/feature listed below in each box with the youngest events at the top of the column and the oldest events at the bottom. This is a relative dating exercise - specific dates or years don't matter. Don't worry if some boxes are left empty - it's not important that every event fills a box. Only the broad arrangement of events with time is what matters.

In the National Park column, write the name of a national park at each bullet point that corresponds with each geologic event/feature. Keep in mind that some events/features may correspond with multiple parks - just enter one park per bullet point.

The Laramide Orogeny and Pleistocene Glaciation are shown as examples.

Events to include in the timeline (use the abbreviations given):

• Laramide Orogeny
• Pleistocene Glaciation
• Creation of Basement Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
• Terrestrial (land-derived) Deposition on Colorado Plateau
• Cascades Volcanism
• Birth (initiation) of the San Andreas Fault
• Ancestral Sierra Nevada (Creation of Sierran Batholith)
• Hot Spot Volcanism in Hawaii and Yellowstone
• Uplift of Modern Sierra Nevada
• Basin and Range Extension
• Marine (ocean-derived) Deposition on Colorado Plateau

Geologic Event/Feature National Park Geologic Era Pleistocene Glaciation Cenozoic Laramide Orogeny Mesozoic Paleozoic Precambrian

Answer 1

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