Klamath Mountains/Blue Mountains
read pages 134-154 and 166-187
1. Name two ways the Klamath mountains resemble
the Blue mountains (hint: see
page 135).
2. Many of the Klamath mountain rocks have
been metamorphically altered to
what level?
Of what sort of environment is this typical?
3. What two types of terrane make up the Klamath mountains?
4. How do the ages of the batholiths in the
Klamath mountains compare to the
ages of the batholiths
in the Blue mountains (you will need to look at both
chapters).
5. Look at the illustration on pages 167
and 168. What four physiographic
provinces surround the
Blue mountains?
6. What is a melange (hint: check out page 175 and then the glossary)?
7. What is a fore-arc basin? Which
of the Blue mountain terranes is a fragment
of a fore-arc basin?
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