Rocks in your mountain range 1. What is the major class(es) of rocks exposed at

Rocks in your mountain range
1. What is the major class(es) of rocks exposed at the surface in your mountain range: Igneous, Sedimentary or, Metamorphic. If there is more than one class where is each rock class most common in your range? (For Example: the Appalachians have all 3, with igneous intrusions typically found in New Hampshire, metamorphic rocks associated with subduction are found in Vermont and horizontal sedimentary rocks of the Appalachian plateau in Upstate New York . . . )
2. Name at least 4 rocks that are common to your mountain range. Discuss their
ages, and
how / where they appear.
try to include minerology if possible
(The white mountains are called so for the light colored characteristic Jurassic age Granite, whereas the Green mountains of Vermont contains a variety of metamorphosed sediment including Marble and Schist in the area around Bennington VT. The Appalachian plateau in New York shows widespread limestones and is associated with a number of cavern systems . . .)
3. what events are associated with the formation of these rocks
(The Appalachian plateau reflects shallow shelf deposition in the Carboniferous period when this was a passive margin . . . the metamorphism in Vermont reflects subduction toward an island arc . . . The white mountains are unusual in that they are younger than many rocks present in the Appalachian mountains and many originate as intrusive bodies connected to the passage of the great meteor hotspot during the Jurassic and cretaceous . . . .)
4. Include Citations / references. USE APA format
Rivers in your mountain range
Water water everywhere
Identify prominent features associated with water – rock interactions in your study area. Describe at least ONE of the following (if more than one is possible I won’t stop you from doing more):
River systems
what major rivers are present?
what kind of river channels are present?
Are there any major drainage divides in your mountain range? WHere are they relative to the center to the range?
Do rivers tend to flow through your mountain range, around your mountain range. or away from your mountain range?
what sediment is moved
how variable is the river flow
Groundwater / aquifers
name one or more aquifers
What kind of rock / sediment makes up the storage for this aquifer?
what (if any) are the surface expressions of this aquifer?
Active faults and recent earthquakes in your mountain range
When did your mountain range last shake?
Mountain ranges undergoing active uplift will tend to experience frequent earthquake activity. Even ones that have seen very little tectonic activity often retain some residual crustal stresses 100’s of millions of years later.
Goto https://earthquake.usgs.gov (Links to an external site.) and try to find the most recent earthquake greater than M4.0 in your mountain range.
Answer:
Where was the last earthquake > 4.0 in your mountain range?
what was the magnitude of the earthquake?
What was the sense of offset from that earthquake? (look at the moment tensor (Links to an external site.)) –or for more info click here (Links to an external site.)
Does your mountain range appear to experience frequent earthquakes in the present time?
Video Walkthrough:https://youtu.be/KdtgLytYOiY (Links to an external site.)
Find fault in your mountains
A. Name at least 2 major faults associated with your mountain range. If you’re struggling with finding more than one talk about events that may have shaped your mountain range.
What is the approximate strike of the fault zone(s)?
what is the nature of faulting last time the fault moved?
how is the fault expressed at the surface?
about how much total offset has taken place along the fault zone (this might not be readily available, but really cool if you can find it)