Friday fold: soft sediment deformation in California’s Castaic Formation

The Friday fold comes to us today from Bret Leslie of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a friend through the Geological Society of Washington. It shows soft sediment deformation in the Late Miocene Castaic Formation, a unit deposited in the Ridge Basin, a wrench basin that opened in a releasing bend along the San Andreas Fault:


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Details of the site can be explored at this geocache description.

Thanks for sharing, Bret!

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