Close-up view of detachment fault, Death Valley, CA.
national park
Mylonitic gneiss: top-right
foliation, metamorphic, metamorphism, mylonite
Deformed Cambrian trilobite
fossils, ductile, ductility
Disharmonic folds in gneiss.
metamorphic, ductile deformation, ductility
Overturned anticline, Death Valley, CA.
folds, folded, ductile
San Andreas fault, Pt. Reyes, California
point, active fault, seis, fault-controlled
Cross-cutting relations
granite, granitic, igneous, intrusive
Death Valley salt pan (vertical)
evaporite minerals, halite, , flats
Wind ripples and dunes, Death Valley, California
eolian, windblown
Alluvial fan, Death Valley, CA
sediment, gravel, depositon, canyon mouth, mountains
Mudcracked playa, Mojave Desert (vertical)
dry lakebed
Sea Arch, Oregon
Pacific
Cambrian Ogygopsis trilobite
fossils, Burgess Shale
Proterozoic stromatolites, Montana
alpine, Precambrian sedimentary, stromatalites
Normal faults in sandstone, Utah
extension, faulting, brittle
Proterozoic stromatolite (vertical)
limestone, laminations, algal mat, Precambrian, stromatalites