Faults in Quartz Sands
by David Tanner, LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics, 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!!
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- Europe (3876)
- Western Europe (787)
- Germany (264)
- Exact location (11.1393 E, 52.1915 N)
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Taken on 31
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2012
Submitted on 18 August 2014
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David Tanner (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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