Fold Friday: Moab Utah
Not exactly folds, but impressive faults in sedimentary units near Moab Utah. Too impressive not to share.
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Typically, this series is dedicated to impressive folds and their history. While digging for photos this week and researching, I found a textbook example of normal faulting in outcrops of sandstone units that was too good not to share.
Plus, faulting is intimately related to folding and really just the extreme end member of folds, right? Close enough for me, hope you enjoy it also.
Geologic Setting
The faults of today are within the Pennsylvanian Honaker Trail Formation, a 298-320 million-year-old geologic formation composed of limestone and sandstone.
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