Multiple Detachment Folds
by David Tanner, LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany
Very thin marble and pelite layers that are highly deformed by folds which detach in the pelite layers. Image created by scanning a polished face of a hand specimen. Length approx. 8cm. Sample collected by Steffi Burchardt while mapping in the Carrara area.
Category
Location
- Europe (3893)
- Southern Europe (1691)
- Italy (433)
- Exact location (10.1239 E, 44.0819 N)
Colours
Image properties
3080 × 934 px;
image/jpeg; 2.6 MB
Camera:
scanned hand specimen n/a
Taken in
2001
Submitted on 7 July 2014
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Credit
David Tanner (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Share
Appreciate
Report