Type 2 Refolded fold
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Type 2 Refolded fold

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

This is the locality where Ramsay first developed his ideas about refolded folds. This example shows a type 2 refold fold. The rocks are the finely-layered Glenfinnan Group of the Precambrian Moine Sequence.