Category Archives: structures

The baking of an angular unconformity: Hutton’s Unconformicake

One of the most famous sites in the history of geology – in cake form!. Chris’s entry for Accretionary Wedge #30: the bake sale Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, structures

The making of an angular unconformity: Hutton’s unconformity at Siccar Point

Photos and video from a geo-pilgrimage: an in-depth look at Hutton’s Unconformity, and the geological history that it represents. Continue reading →

Categories: deep time, geology, outcrops, Palaeozoic, photos, structures

The fault that made a mountain range

How the Teton Range and the Teton Fault are essentially the same thing. Continue reading →

Categories: geology, geomorphology, outcrops, photos, structures

Friday Focal Mechanisms: Haiti, revisited

The new research that acquits the Enriquillo Fault of causing the Haiti earthquake. Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards, structures, tectonics

Old tectonic scars run deep: the magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Ontario

The location of yesterday’s earthquake in Canada was controlled by tectonic processes that operated, and ceased, hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Categories: deep time, earthquakes, geohazards, geology, structures, tectonics