Slipsiding Away
by David Tanner, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Hannover, Germany
Beautiful outcrop of a fault surface that is completely covered in slickenside in the Corona Heights Park of San Francisco. Host rock is radiolarite and the slickenside are pure quartz. Outcrop is approx 20m high, 10cm scale bar lower left.
Taken on 17
December
2014
Submitted on Jan. 5, 2015
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Location
- North America (739)
- Northern America (578)
- United States of America (386)
- Exact location (-122.4369 W, 37.7647 N)
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fault, outcrop, usa, slickenside
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Canon EOS 1100D
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Credit: David Tanner (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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