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Gallery: Faults: A GigaPan Gallery for Teaching Geology

Faults: A GigaPan Gallery for Teaching Geology

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A selected group of GigaPans illustrating geologic faults.

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Ron Schott
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  1. Can you find the evidence of post-glacial normal faulting in this GigaPan?

  2. Outside the entrance to Capitol Reef National Park is this particular outcrop - the red layers are offset just to the left of the mesa at the right side of the pan (I'll snapshot it...). There's a nice description of the geology on a nearby plaque (not visible here....)

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  3. Thrust fault exposed along the road to Dante's View.

  4. This is a exposure of the lower 40-50m of the Late Miocene Gatun Formation at a quarry near Colon

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  5. This is another panorama of Culebra Cut, shot from Gold Hill. It stretches from the Centennial Bridge (south), 180 degrees to the north.

  6. Gerolimenas fault scarp from inside caving, pseudo-HDR from raw files Failles Vivantes 2011

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  7. Eastward dipping strata of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Amsden Formation

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  8. Just outside Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah.

  9. The classic North American example of a klippe: Mesoproeterozoic Belt rocks (Altyn, Appekunny) atop Cretaceous strata deposited in the Western Interior Seaway (Blackleaf Fm?)

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  10. A closeup of the Genoa Fault shows Quaternary alluvium on the right downfaulted against Sierran granite on the left. The fault motion of the footwall block (left) moving up relative to the headwall block (right) makes this a normal fault. Since unconsolidated Quaternary sediments are involved in the faulting, the fault...

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