27 March 2015
Posted by Callan Bentley
I’m very nearly delinquent on posting the Friday fold… Here you go – a Google Earth view of a differentially-weathered fold partly above and partly below sea level in Chilean Patagonia, south of Puerto Natales:
They call it Isla Escarpada. Awesome.
Here’s a Google Maps link if you want to explore it yourself.
Happy Friday!
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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Entirely too cool!
The Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay have a similar look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belcher_Islands
Been there, Friday folded that:
https://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2010/11/19/friday-fold-belcher-islands/
Do you think it would fair to guess this was an anticline since the center appears to have have weathered out first?
Hi Michael,
What evidence are you noticing that suggests the center ‘appears to have weathered out first’?