12 July 2019
Friday fold: Wiltondale, Newfoundland
Posted by Callan Bentley
Here is an outcrop of folded limestone along route 430 in Newfoundland, inside Gros Morne National Park, just west of the crossroads called Wiltondale:
A detailed look at the left antiformal portion of the outcrop:
A zoomed-in examination of the rightmost part, where a goopy looking synform resides:
Just down the way, a second outcrop shows another fold with the same sense of asymmetry, on a smaller scale:
Happy Friday to you. Enjoy your weekends.
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.