A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Contrasting behavior of limestone and dolostone |
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| Description | Contrasting behavior of limestone and dolostone in a sequence of deformed Ordovician sedimentary rocks immediately underlying the Sudbury Thrust at Lemon Fair River Bluffs, near Sudbury Vermont. Dolostones (buff-colored) exhibit boudins with abundant calcite-filled fractures, while the limestones (gray) deformed ductilely. |
| Chronostratigraphy | Ordovician |
| Location | USA ▹ Vermont. Near Sudbury. Lemon Fair River Bluffs. |
| Photographer | Barbara Tewksbury. 1995. |
| Collection | Keck Structural Geology Slide Set #BT5. |
| Key words | limestone, dolostone, deformed, Vermont, fractures |
| Tech details | 582 KB. Outcrop. |
| GeoDIL number | 3059 |
| Copyright | Barbara Tewksbury |