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    The Teton fault is a normal fault located in northwestern Wyoming. The fault has a length of 44 miles (70 km) and runs along the eastern base of the Teton...
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    Earth's crust caused movement along the Teton fault. The west block along the fault line rose to form the Teton Range, creating the youngest mountain range...
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    Grand Teton National Park is a national park of the United States in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately 310,000 acres (1,300 km2), the park includes...
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    The Teton Dam was an earthen dam in the western United States, on the Teton River in eastern Idaho. It was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, one...
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    geology of the Grand Teton area consists of some of the oldest rocks and one of the youngest mountain ranges in North America. The Teton Range, partly located...
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    The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes...
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    between fault scarps and fault-line scarps. The Teton Range in Wyoming is an example of an active fault scarp. The dramatic topography of the Tetons is due...
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    a 40-mile (64-km) long steeply east dipping geological fault system called the Teton Fault began to vertically move two adjacent blocks. One block,...
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    dropped. About 2 Ma, the Hoback Fault formed east of the Tetons, and a graben valley developed between the Hoback and Teton fault zones, creating Jackson Hole...
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    Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust. Large...
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    Jackson Lake Dam (category Buildings and structures in Teton County, Wyoming)
    withstand the "maximum credible earthquake," a magnitude 7.5 quake on the Teton fault. Since then various studies have cast doubt on this belief. The dam is...
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  • Teton Valley is located on the west slope of the Teton Mountain Range in the western United States. Sometimes known as "The quiet side of the Tetons",...
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  • the Story of TGR's 16 Years in Jackson Hole, a 2006 ski documentary by Teton Gravity Research The Big One (TV series), an early-1990s comedy series starring...
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    jewelry and hardstone carving, sometimes under the name "false jade" or "Teton jade". Most serpentines are opaque to translucent, light (specific gravity...
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  • Katahdin Mount Le Conte Mount Shuksan Mount Timpanogos Shenandoah French Broad Teton Range Big Ben – Heard Island Ahipara Gumfields – New Zealand Massif de la...
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    and Power, directly on an active fault line, which was subsidiary to the well-known nearby Newport–Inglewood Fault. The underlying geologic strata were...
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    Yosemite Valley, California, United States; 900 m (3,000 ft) Grand Teton, north face Teton Range, Wyoming 760 m (2,490 ft) Northwest Face of Half Dome, near...
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    members with a temple recommend. The temple stands on top of the Hayward Fault Zone; it underwent major renovations and seismic upgrades, closing from...
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    Jackson Hole National Monument (category Grand Teton National Park)
    Presidential Proclamation 2578 establishing a large swath of land east of the Teton National Park as a national monument. The area of land covered 221,610 acres...
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    of Old Faithful & north of Grant Village on Grand Loop Road, West Thumb, Teton, WY at the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) West Thumb Hamilton's...
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    basins into a relatively flat terrain. The Tetons and other north-central ranges contain folded and faulted rocks of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age draped...
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    west, the entire Sierra Nevada can be thought of as an enormous tilted fault block with a long, gentle slope westward to California's Central Valley...
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    basins into a relatively flat terrain. The Tetons and other north-central ranges contain folded and faulted rocks of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age draped...
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    Colorado Sangre de Cristos are fault-block mountains similar to the Teton Range in Wyoming and the Wasatch Range in Utah. Major fault lines run along the east...
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    storage plant) Internal erosion or piping, especially in earthen dams (Teton Dam) Earthquakes Climate-driven landscape instability (Rock-ice avalanches...
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    compensation coverage for the general public. The Act establishes a no fault insurance-type system in which the first approximately $15 billion (as of...
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    south by reverse faults that meet below the range, on the north by the North Flank fault and on the south by the Uinta Basin boundary fault. The Uinta Mountain...
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    the late Cretaceous, in the Laramide orogeny. In areas near the Boysen Fault, just north of Boysen Reservoir's dam at the southern mouth of Wind River...
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  • (MTI). In 1986, an O-ring fault in an MTI SRB destroyed Space Shuttle Challenger in flight. The company was found at fault for the destruction of Challenger...
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    Yellowstone Caldera (category Landforms of Teton County, Wyoming)
    McDermitt, Nevada–Oregon, although there are volcaniclastic piles and arcuate faults that define caldera complexes more than 60 km (37 mi) in diameter in the...
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