Slipsiding Away

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David Tanner
LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics, 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.

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Type Image Format JPG Size 7.5 MB Width 4272 px Height 2848 px Aspect 3:2 Brand Canon Model EOS 1100D Exposure 18 mm f/4.5 1/60 s ISO 100 Taken 17 December 2014 Coordinates 37.7647, -122.4369 Tint Grayish brown Submitted 5 January 2015

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