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!!
Taken on 31
March
2012
Submitted on 18 Aug 2014
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- Exact location (11.1393 E, 52.1915 N)
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