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Folding, Faulting, and Mountains
GLY 2010 – Summer 2013 - Lecture 13
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Stress
• Stress is a force that is capable of greatly deforming rocks, and may result in folding or faulting of rock, and even to the building of mountains
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Types of Stress
• There are three types of stress Compression Tension Shear
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Compression• Opposing forces directed inward along
a single line
• Compression shortens an object along the axis of compression, and thickens it in the directions perpendicular to the stress direction
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Tension• Tension is the result of divergence,
pulling an object in opposite directions along a common axis
• Tension lengthens an object along the axis of tension, and thins it in the perpendicular directions
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Tensional Cracking
• Tension can produce cracks in the direction perpendicular to the axis of tension
Cracking develops
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Tension Crack Pictures
• Nisqually Earthquake, 2/28/01, in Washington caused tension cracking.
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Shear
• Opposing stress is created by two plates moving in opposite directions
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Responses to Stress
• There are three responses to stress Elastic Plastic Rupture
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Elastic Substances
• Behave elastically, stretch without breaking
• Snap back to their original position, when stress is removed
• Elastic limit: a limit beyond which substances cannot be stretched without breaking
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Plastic Substances
• Slow deformation without breaking
• Plastically deformed substances do not return to their original shape when the stress is removed
• Rate of deformation is important - Stress applied quickly will cause rupture
Silly George, by Vern HartTime-lapse slumping of
silly putty. Notice movement in upper left corner.
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Plastic Deformation
• The rate of plastic deformation makes a difference
• Silly putty breaks if pulled rapidly, stretches if pulled slowly
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Rupture
• Elastic substances stretched beyond the elastic limit, or plastic substances deformed quickly, will rupture
• Rupture is called brittle failure
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Deformation
• Rocks subjected to stress may: Deform by folding Rupture, with subsequent movement
along the plane of rupture - this is called faulting
Fold, then rupture
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Folding
• Folds may be described in terms of two parameters: Axial Plane Limbs
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Anticline
• If the fold is convex upward, it is called an anticline
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Anticlinal Fold
• Rainbow Gap, Virginia• Photo: Henry Johnson
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Atlas Mountains Anticline
• One of the best exposures of a complexly folded mountain belt anywhere occurs in the Atlas Mountain system of northwest Africa
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Domes
• Domes are anticlines that curve in three dimensions, like an upside down bowl
• Figure shows the Black Hills, South Dakota
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Eroded Dome, Sinclair, Wyoming
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Syncline
• If the fold is convex downward, it is called a syncline
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Syncline Photo
• Photo: Duncan Heron• Synclinal fold exposed by roadcut
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Anticline-Syncline Pair
• Anticline-Syncline pair in Devonian Old Red Sandstone. SW Wales, UK
• Note the different fold shapes
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Basins
• Basins are syncline that curve in three dimensions, like a bowl
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Overturned Folds
• Overturned fold in lower center of picture
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Recumbent Folds
• Recumbent folds are defined as folds with horizontal (<10° dip) axial surfaces
• Photo: Ron Perkins
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Fold Diagram
• Diagram shows the major types of folds
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Plunging Folds
• The axes of the folds may be tilted, creating a series of plunging folds
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Folding Animation
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Joints
• Three joint sets (left photo)• Joints and dikes, Acadia National Park video
(right)
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Faults
• A fault is a fracture along which definite movement has occurred
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Strike and Dip
The strike-dip symbol, used on geologic maps, is shown - the long direction points in the horizontal direction, and the shorter side
shows dip direction
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Strike-slip Direction
• Strike-slip faults are further described as "right-lateral" or "left-lateral" depending if the block opposite the viewer moved to the right or left, respectively
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Strike Slip Fault
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Right-Lateral Strike Slip
• Block is displaced to the right, looking across the fault
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Strike Slip FaultsRight Lateral
•Near Coos Bay, Oregon
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Left-Lateral Strike Slip
• Block is displaced to the left, looking across the fault
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Strike Slip Faults - Left Lateral
Near Lillooet, British Columbia
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Dip-slip Faults
• Dip direction is always perpendicular to the strike line
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Fault Terminology
• Foot Wall and Hanging Wall are borrowed from mining terminology
• Ore veins are often deposited along faults
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Normal Fault
• Normal faulting results from tensional forces • Hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall
(here, to the right)•Places younger rocks on top of older
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Sevier Normal Fault
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Death Valley Normal Faults
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Reverse Fault
• Reverse faulting results from compressional forces• Hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall (here,
to the left)• Places older rocks on top of younger
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Reverse Fault
• Reverse faults and associated fold
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Thrust Fault
• Thrust faults are low angle reverse faults
• They sometimes move large distances (tens of kilometers)
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Lewis Overthrust
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Explanation of Lewis Overthrust
• Chief Mountain was moved about forty kilometers and isolated by erosion
• Chief Mountain is much older (Precambrian) than the rock upon which it rests (Cretaceous)
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Chief Mountain
Older rock above younger, typical of thrust faultsGlacier National Park, Montana
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Oblique Slip
• Oblique-slip is a combination of vertical and horizontal movement
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Horst and Graben
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San Andreas/Garlock
Faults From Space
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San Andreas Fault
• Pacific plate, left
• North America, right
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San Andreas Offsetting Fence
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Fault Animations
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Fault Diagram Summary
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Orogenesis
• Tectonic forces often create mountains, a process called orogenesis
• There are several types of mountains Folded Faulted Upwarped Volcanic
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Orogenesis by Folding
• Plate collisions involving continental plates can produce high mountains Examples: Himalayas (India, Tibet, China) Alps (Europe) Urals (Europe/Asia boundary) Appalachians
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Himalayan Mountains
Mt. Everest High peaks in the Himalayas
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Owens Valley and the Sierra Nevada Range
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Orogenesis by Upwarping
• Formed when a large region of the earth’s crust is bent into a broad, regional uplift with little apparent deformation of the rocks
• Upwarping may be due to local vertical motion, rather than plate tectonic forces - often far from plate boundaries
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Custer State Park,Black Hills, South Dakota
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Volcanic Mountains
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Faults
• A fault is a fracture along which definite movement has occurred
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