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.
Categories
- Field (2822)
- Geodynamics (363)
- Seismology (210)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (509)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (569)
Location
- Asia (1061)
- Western Asia (301)
- Oman (19)
- Exact location (57.0745 E, 23.2339 N)
Tags
- quartz (12)
- oman (5)
- calcite veins (4)
- pavement (3)
- crack seal (2)
- fibrous veins (1)
- 3d outcrop (1)
- boudinage (1)
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3008 × 2000 px;
image/jpeg; 3.1 MB
Camera:
Pentax K100D
Taken on 18
March
2010
Submitted on 11 March 2011
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
Max Arndt (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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