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Beauty of the mountains:
folded mountains
When land layers of the Earth’s crust are subjected to tectonic stresses, these rocks will eventually deform. The deformations are initially soft, not brittle. We then obtain undulations of ground called folds. We are talking about folding rocks.
If the constraints continue, the deformations will become brittle: the rock breaks. We then obtain faults.
We can find folds of all sizes, from microplits less than one centimeter up to folds of regional dimension. [.geowiki.fr]
Commana: Anticlinal around (east) Croas Melar, Brittany – France
Author: Moreau.henri . Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Author: Dru! . Source: flickr.com
Anticline and quartz « saddle reef » vein in the Halifax Formation (Cambrian), The Ovens, Nova Scotia – Canada
Author: Michael C. Rygel . Source: commons.wikimedia.org (treated)
Folded rocks of Sevehah Cliff, looking north from the trail up Convict Canyon. John Muir Wilderness, Sierra Nevada, California USA
Author: Jane S. Richardson . Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Quartzite folded after shortening during the Carboniferous period (320 million years ago). La Barca Syncline, Asturias, Spain
Author: Dpastorgalan . Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Due to the tectonics of the alpine folds, these sediments formerly deposited in a deeper basin (Pindosozean) have been deformed. They are one of the most photographed geological objects of all Crete – Greece
Author: Dieter Mueller . Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Syncline exposed in the lower parking lot of Calico Ghost Town near Barstow, California
Author: Wilson44691 . Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Detachment folding in Lower Jurassic limestone layers of the Doldenhorn nappe, Gasteretal, Switzerland
Location is at the Waldhus, looking north. Scale of the outcrop is about 1 km from left (west) to right (east). Mountain ridge is from Jegertosse (2154 m, left) to the Innerer Fisistock (2787 m)
Author: Woudloper . Source: commons.wikimedia.org (treated)
Bekhal is located in the mountainous region of Kurdistan – Iraq
Author: Husam.Jasim. Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Folded rocks near Collieston ( on the North Sea coast in Aberdeenshire, Scotland).
This is a splendid example of a tight recumbent fold, showing the forces which deformed these rocks during the Caledonian mountain building 400 million years ago.
Author: Anne Burgess. Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Mount Reglès (Alpes de Haute-Provence, France), synclinal fold
Author: Spiridon Ion Cepleanu. Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Complex Folds, 3 km from Glenfinnan, Highland, Great Britain
The rocks here are mica schists, pelites and psammites typical of the Glenfinnan Division of the Moine succession. They have been extensively deformed by tectonic movements, as can be seen by the many folds and the fact that here, in what is termed the Steep Belt, they have been tilted so that what was once horizontal is now close to vertical. They have been shaped into smooth mounds by the erosive power of a glacier moving over them during the last Ice Age.
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yes my beautiful friend 😉
In a most delightful way too 🙂
tectonics changes the face of the world
I remember a bit about techtonics from school, but not much, I’d have to re-read a bit, still the pictures are pretty incredible! The power it would have taken to move them so evenly in such a (what turned out to be) beautiful pattern
they are similar earth movements (in places and times too far away), which produced similar folds (they are called « techtonics »). The strongest produced the mountains of the world.
I find it amazing that they are so similar yet so many hundreds of miles apart. Beautiful though, aren’t they?
yeeees , the movements of the earth for 300 million years, creating and drawing wonderful artistic works. 🙂
Fascinating, aren’t they?