Hi Jan
>My question to this group is if anybody knows of (more or less) good
>outcrops of inverted faults, preferably in Europe (but elsewhere would
>interest me as well).
There is a very fine inversion structure on the west coast of Newfoundland,
the Round Head Thrust. It was a normal fault in the Ordovician and was
inverted probably in the Devonian. The neat thing is that the outcrop
level in the hangingwall is in middle Ordovician, and a boulder
conglomerate (boulders up to 65 m) derived from the footwall is
magnificently exposed. The footwall was drilled for oil so there is a well
log through the fault and good seismic, on which you can trace the fault to
depth.
You could look at Waldron et al (1993) Can. J. Earth Sci 30, 1759-1772.
[But note that this was before we had the seismic. We showed the fault as
very listric; it isn't.] More recently Waldron et al (1998) Can. J. Earth
Sci. 35. 1271-1287; Stockmal et al (1998) Can. J. Earth Sci. 35. 1288-1306
John Waldron
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