10 November 2017
Friday fold: soft sediment deformation in California’s Castaic Formation
Posted by Callan Bentley
The Friday fold comes to us today from Bret Leslie of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a friend through the Geological Society of Washington. It shows soft sediment deformation in the Late Miocene Castaic Formation, a unit deposited in the Ridge Basin, a wrench basin that opened in a releasing bend along the San Andreas Fault:
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Details of the site can be explored at this geocache description.
Thanks for sharing, Bret!
If you have a Friday fold you’d like to share, get in touch with me.
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.
Should be “Castaic”, not “Castiac”.
Many thanks – I propagated the typo from the Earthcache webpage to this post. It’s corrected now.
How exciting, however it’s spelled.
How do I submit a “Friday Fold’ photograph?
You can email it to me at [email protected]
Thanks