P number: | P806002 |
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Caption: | These overthrust faults all slope southwards at 10 degrees to 20 degrees and in every case the roof has been pushed northward and upwards over the floor for a distance of a few feet. Swanage Excursion, May 14th 1910. |
Description: | These structures relieved the strain by enabling the upper limb to pass further over the lower limb than would have been possible by folding alone. |
Copyright statement: | NERC |
Additional information: | From the Geologists' Association Carreck Archive. The Reader Geological Photographs Long Excursions 1910. |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 310.89 KB; 999 x 773 pixels; 85 x 65 mm (print at 300 DPI); 264 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
Categories: | Special collections/ Geologists' Association 'Carreck Archive'/ T W Reader geological photographs long excursions 1910 |
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