3D outcrop of fibrous quartz-calcite veins
by Max Arndt, RWTH-Aachen University Geologie Endogene Dynamik, Aachen, Germany
A 3D outcrop of fibrous quartz-calcite veins. field book for scale. The veins are a set of regularly spaced veins in a limestone layer that is sandwiched by argillaceous limestones.
The outcrop allows direction measurement of stretched crystal orientation and it reveals the 3D morphology of the entire vein body.
Taken on 18
March
2010
Submitted on 11 Mar 2011
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- Field (2733)
- Geodynamics (357)
- Seismology (209)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (484)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (542)
Location
- Asia (1002)
- Western Asia (285)
- Oman (19)
- Exact location (57.0745 E, 23.2339 N)
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quartz, oman, calcite veins, pavement, crack seal, fibrous veins, 3d outcrop, boudinage
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Credit: Max Arndt (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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