A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Folded soil layer along shore of Lake Geneva |
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| Description | Folded soil layer along shore of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, caused by movement of ice on shore during spring breakup following high winds. The anticlinal structures give way to thrust faulting, and in the background one can see where a rear fault has left exposed a cross-section of an anticline. These structures are reminiscent of large scale features caused by convergent boundaries in plate tectonics. |
| Location | USA ▹ Wisconsin. Along shore of Lake Geneva. |
| Photographer | Richard Stenstrom. 1995. |
| Collection | Keck Structural Geology Slide Set #RS4. |
| Key words | fold, soil |
| Tech details | 429 KB. Outcrop. |
| GeoDIL number | 3053 |
| Copyright | Richard Stenstrom |