Faults in Quartz Sands
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Faults in Quartz Sands

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

These pure white Cretaceous quartz sands were deposited on top of the Morsleben salt dome, and have paid the price ever since. They are intensely faulted and fractured. Oh for a marker bed or two!!