Jacob's Ladder
by David Tanner, LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany
This small (scale 1m) exposure of unconsolidated glacial sands shows the detail between two large normal faults. There are a myriad of small-scale faults that connect the two together, that form, in our terminology, a "Jacob's ladder".
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- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (517)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (580)
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- Europe (3862)
- Western Europe (782)
- Germany (261)
- Exact location (9.8683 E, 51.9350 N)
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3648 × 2736 px;
image/jpeg; 8.7 MB
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Canon PowerShot A2000 IS
Taken on 9
July
2009
Submitted on 8 July 2014
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Credit
David Tanner (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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