Multiple Detachment Folds
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Multiple Detachment Folds

by David Tanner, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), 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.