Jacob's Ladder
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Jacob's Ladder

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