16 January 2015
Posted by Callan Bentley
Zoltán Sylvester has contributed today’s Friday fold, an anticline in the Ross Sandstone of Ireland:
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Thanks Zoltán! Happy Friday everyone.
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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monocline?
Wouldn’t that be a monocline?
I reckon that depends on the greater regional context… What happens to the left – does it flatten back out to horizontal again? Does it arch down again to the right? In terms of pure description (not regional interpretation, understand), is there any functional difference between the anticline that is the upper “hinge” of a monoclinal step and an asymmetrical anticline without a surrounding monocline? 🙂