Normal Fault

Grand Teton National Park Wyoming,United Wyoming,United States S.S.NANTHAVARMAN

Fault
It is a fracture along a volume rock Can be a displacement on vertical or horizontal 4 types of Fault -Normal Fault -Reverse Fault -Thrust Fault -Strike Slip Fault

Normal Fault
It is a type of Dip-Slip Fault a fault in which the hanging wall has moved down relative to the footwall

Graben and Horst

A horst is a raised elongated block of the earth's crust lying between two faults. A graben is an elongated block of earths crust lying between two faults and is displaced downward relative to the blocks on either side, as in a rift valley.

Grand Teton National Park

FVH 07 AUG 2005

Vital Statistics
The geology of the Grand Teton area consists of some of the oldest rocks and one of the youngest mountain ranges in North America It is marine in origin and include some volcanic deposits.

The Teton fault is a normal fault

Therefore movement on the fault is primarily in a vertical direction The 44 mile length of the fault is broken into three segments.

Can you spot the Fault

The Process
For millions of years ago, sediment was deposited and buried within the earth's crust. Heat and pressure metamorphosed (changed) the sediment into gneiss, the rocks that comprise the main mass of the Teton Range.

Next, magma (molten rock) forced its way up through cracks and zones of weakness in the gneiss. This igneous rock (formed by heat) slowly cooled, forming light-colored dikes of lightgranite, inches to hundreds of feet thick. Compression of the earth's crust 80 million to 40 million years ago caused uplift of the Rocky Mountain chain of Teton

Stretching and thinning of the earth's crust caused movement along the Teton fault and stretched the range. range.

Teton Fault

Teton Fault

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