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".
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- Field (2770)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (491)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (554)
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- Europe (3566)
- Western Europe (716)
- Germany (251)
- 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 July 8, 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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