
Sea level change and tectonics collide
by Dan Killam
The history of the Cretaceous is dramatically exposed near Yotvata, Israel, with light evaporitic gypsum layers separated by green and red shales. Fractures in the shales have been filled by beautiful spider webbed patterns of secondary gypsum, and the entire succession is violently interrupted by a fault
Taken on 10
January
2019
Submitted on 14 Feb 2019
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fault, shale, tectonics, stratigraphy, gypsum, israel, negev
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