yellowstone fault lines Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/yellowstone-fault-lines Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:17:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Plate tectonics and Yellowstone http://travelsfinders.com/plate-tectonics-yellowstone.html http://travelsfinders.com/plate-tectonics-yellowstone.html#respond Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:24:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=207369 Most people today are aware that the continents move around on the earth’s surface, fortunately at only a few inches (cm) per year, by a process that geologists call plate tectonics. Yellowstone Park is not immune to this process and, in fact, has been singled out for some special events. The plates of plate tectonics are huge slabs that occupy the uppermost 60 On the lower third of Barronette Peak’s cliffs are alternating white and brown layers of sedimentary rocks that are approximately 350 million years old. The chocolate-colored rocks above these are part of the much younger Absaroka Range

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