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26 May 2016
Glaciotectonic thrust at Waubonsee Community College
Glaciers can cause thrust faults! Explore an example from a trench south of Chicago.
20 September 2011
Giant City State Park, Illinois
Giant City State Park is a patch of protected forest south of Carbondale, Illinois, where there are some pretty cool exposures of Pennsylvanian-aged Makanda Sandstone. Here’s a typical look at one: Notice the deep chasm on the right. This leads, maze-like, to other flat-bottomed and vertically-walled canyons: The orthogonal joint sets produces some nice tall, cliff-like vertical exposures that reveal the history of these rocks in several stages: deposition by …
