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Transect Trip 22: S-fold breached by thrust fault

September 11, 2024March 18, 2010 by Callan Bentley

Oriskany sandstone, folded into an S-fold, then snapped down the middle!

Categories faults, folds, geology, gsa, structure, valley and ridge, west virginia

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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.

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