Faults: A GigaPan Gallery for Teaching Geology
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Limestone Bluff Cedar-Pine Forest at Lone Rock Point, Vermont – Dunham dolostone (Cambrian, light color) has been thrust to the west as much as 80 km (50 miles) and rests here on top of much younger Iberville shale (Ordovician, black). The contrasting appearance of the two rock types, and the ca. 50 million year diff...
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Normal fault in the Fort Hays member of the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, south of Stockton, Kansas. These chalk beds were originally deposited in the shallow Western Interior Seaway about 80 million years ago. The thick beds of the Fort Hays member are extensively bioturbated. Faulting is post-Cretaceous and pre-Q...
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This monument was set aside to preserve and protect the largest concentration of archaeological sites in the United States. Paleo-Indian inhabitation of the region extends back at least 10,000 years. As of 2005 over 6000 individual archaeological sites have been identified within the monument , the largest being Sand C...
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Taken from a higher vantage point, this view encompases the Red Rock Canyon in the foreground (Jurassic Aztec Sandstone) and the Keystone Thrust and overthrust Paleozoic section (darker colors) in the distance.
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The low scarp just beyond my Jeep marks the trace of the surface rupture of the 1872 Lone Pine M~7.8 Earthquake (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872_Lone_Pine_earthquake
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Sevier age thrust fault at Ketobe Knob on the south side of Cedar Mountain in the San Rafael Swell, southeast of Cleveland, Utah. This is the iconic outcrop of the second major structure/geologic mapping project of the Fort Hays State University Geology Summer Field Camp. For more information about our field camp see...
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A Sevier-style thrust fault exposed west of Augusta, Montana, the French Thrust has emplaced Mississippian carbonates on top of Cretaceous shales. On the left (east), there is also some till, outwash, and colluvium. View is approximately to the south.
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A very curious roadcut. On the left side of the cut the Fort Hays Limestone depositionally overlies the Blue Hill Shale. On the west side of the cut Codell sandstone is exposed in the footwall of an eastward dipping fault. Slickensides on the fault surface suggest dip-slip offset. Thing is, where it does occur the ...
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Two small normal faults are visible in these erosional remnants of the Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk in southeastern Gove County, Kansas.
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Complex fault and fold structure, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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