Progressive Detachment Fold
by David Tanner, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Hannover, Germany
A folded marble/pelite sequence that show how a detachment fold grows from increments of slip on different layers (layer-parallel slip). Sample collected by Steffi Burchardt in Carrara, Italy. Sample was scanned to produce the image. Width of image is 13 cm.
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- Europe (3832)
- Southern Europe (1660)
- Italy (427)
- Exact location (10.1159 E, 44.0862 N)
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3255 × 1425 px;
image/png; 1.5 MB
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1999
Submitted on 22 July 2014
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)
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David Tanner (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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