I think that the subject has been covered quite well from all of you. My
interest was a little bit different. What is the lateral prolongation of
these disturbed bedding levels? How they ends or how they pass to
different levels if they do so?
And of course a Happy New Year to all.
Markos
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Dr. Markos D. Tranos
Assistant Professor
Structural Geology-Neotectonics and Geological Mapping
Department of Geology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
GR 54124 Thessaloniki
HELLAS (GREECE)
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On 1/21/2014 10:16, dennis brown wrote:
> My experience is that these features are often found in suites. An
> outcrop may have several unusual features that, in combination can
> point to it being synsedimentary or a later structural. For example,
> the little duplex shown in the first two photos could be either
> (although the top and bottom boundaries look sedimentary), but if we
> take into account that a few meters away we find these "balls" and
> other like features, then is looks like the structure is
> synsedimentary. That is not to say that there wasn't a slump (the
> balls point in that direction) and that during the slump there was
> slip on a bedding surface to cause the duplex. Strange things can
> happen in poorly consolidated sediments in an active tectonic
> environment.
>
> Photos are from the Middle Miocene of the Western Foothills of Taiwan,
> just north of the village of Gaoshing.
>
> Cheers
> Dennis
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