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Geometrical features of folds and their associated minor structures Flashcards

1
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What is reflected in the geometry of a fold?

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The way it was formed

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What is a cylindrical fold?

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A fold that can be generated by translating a straight line with no rotation

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What is the property of a cylindrical fold that is used to generate the fold?

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Fold axis

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What is the profile plane of a fold?

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The plane that is perpendicular to the fold axis

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What is the hinge line of a fold?

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The line connecting points of maximum curvature

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What is the inflection line of a fold?

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The lines joining points of zero curvature

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7
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What is the region around the hinge line called?

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Hinge zone

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What is the region around the hinge zone called?

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Limbs

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9
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What is the relationship between the hinge line and fold axis?

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They are parallel but the hinge line is at a specfic location of the fold, the fold axis is not

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10
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What defines the boundaries of a single fold?

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The portion of the folded surface that lies between two adjacent inflection points

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What is the enveloping surface?

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The surface that contains the crest lines or trough lines

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12
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What is the sheet dip?

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The dip of the enveloping surface, it is effectively the average dip of the folded surface

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What is the median surface?

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The surface containing all the inflection lines

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What is the axial surface?

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The surface containing all the hinge lines of a nested stack (at least 2) of folded surfaces (becomes the axial plane is the surface is planar)

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What is the difference between the hinge plane and axial plane?

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They are parallel but the hinge plane is a specific location wheras the axial plane is not

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What is the axial trace?

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The line of intersection of the axial surface with any other surface of interest (usually the ground surface)

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17
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What is the difference between plunge and dip?

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Plunge is measured along the axis of a fold and dip is measured along the limb

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18
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What is a synform?

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Folds that close down

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19
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What is an antiform?

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Folds that close up

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20
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What is a syncline?

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Folds with the youngest rocks in the core

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What is an anticline?

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Rocks with the oldest rocks in their core

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In which direction is it said that folds face?

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The direction that they young within their axial plane

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23
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What is a homocline?

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Uniformly tilted layering of a regional scale

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What is a monocline?

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A fold pair with two long horizontal limbs connected by a short inclined limb

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What is a box fold?

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Double-hinged fold

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26
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What is a kink fold?

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Half a box fold

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27
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When is a fold symmetric?

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The median surface and axial surface are perpendicular and they divide an antiform-synform pair into mirror-symmetric quarter waves

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When is a fold asymmetric?

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When it violate one or both (usually both) of the conditions for symmetry

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29
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Describe an asymmetric fold

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The median surface and axial plane are not perpendicular and the fold limbs are of unequal length

30
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What are the two types of asymmetric fold?

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Z-fold and S-fold

31
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What is vergence?

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The direction of the antiform if you are on the long limb

32
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When do asymmetric folds only violate one condition of symmetry?

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When the limbs have different thicknesses

33
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What happens when the limbs of an asymmetric fold are different thicknesses?

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The axial plane doesn’t bisect the angle between the limbs

34
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How is the scale of folds measured?

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Amplitude and wavelength in reference to the enveloping and median surfaces

35
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When are two amplitudes required?

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When the median surface is not midway between the enveloping surfaces

36
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What are two other measurements that are important in the formation of folds?

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Arc length and layer thickness

37
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What is a vertical fold?

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Where the fold axis (and therefore the axial plane) is vertical

38
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What is a reclined fold?

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Where the plunge/plunge direction of the fold axis is the same as the dip/dip direction of the axial plane

39
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What is used to describe the attitude of folds?

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The plunge of the fold axis and the dip of the axial plane

40
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What three quantitative measurements can be used to define fold shape?

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Fold aspect ratio, fold bluntness, fold tightness

41
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How do you work out fold aspect ratio?

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Amplitude / half wavelength

42
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What is fold bluntness?

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A measure of how rounded or angular the hinge is (e.g. chevron, rounded, concentric)

43
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What is fold tightness?

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Defined by the interlimb angle (minimum angle between limbs as measured in the profile plane)

44
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What is a parallel fold?

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One that has constant orthogonal layer thickness around the fold

45
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What is a similar fold?

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One that has constnat layer thickness parallel to the axial trace

46
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What is the dip isogon?

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The line connecting points of equal dip on either side of a folded layer, classes of fold range from strongly convergent (1A) to divergent (3)

47
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How can fold classes be shown graphically?

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Orthogonal thickness / orthogonal thickness in the hinge vs. angle

48
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What are primary and secondary structures in folds?

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Primary structures provide an indication of orientation at the time of formation whilst secondary structures are produced by deformation

49
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Are minor folds primary or secondary structures?

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Secondary

50
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How can minor folds help locate the fold hinge?

A

Their vergence changes across the fold hinge

51
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Are planar fabrics/lineations primary or secondary structures?

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Secondary

52
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What are three examples of how lineations are formed?

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Passive rotation of elongate crystals, mineral shape change by plasticity, oriented nucleation and growth of new grains

53
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What is the cleavage of a rock?

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The fabric formed in fine-grained rocks that can be seen with the naked eye, applies at low metamorphic grade

54
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What is schistosity?

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Coarser-grained foliations formed at higher metamorphic grades than cleavage

55
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What is the relationship btween cleavage/schistosity and the axial surface?

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Cleavage/schistosity formes parallel/sub-paralle ot the axial surface of a fold, this is described as axial planar cleavage

56
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What happens when the cleavage is not parallel with the axial plane?

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It fans about the fold in a convergent or divergent way

57
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What is cleavage refraction?

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The changing of the dip of the cleavage when it passes between lithologies, caused by the competence (resistance to flow) of the layers

58
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What does cleavage in more competent lithologies look like?

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Typically at a higher angle to the bedding

59
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What are crenulation lineations?

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The hinges of the small folds formed by the deformation of cleavage, their axial planes are crenulation cleavage

60
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What are S0, S1, and S2?

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S1 is the original bedding surface, S1 is the first cleavage, and S2 is the second cleavage (crenulation)

61
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What are four examples of lineations formed during deformation and often lie within the cleavage plane?

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Preferred orientation, small elongate concentrations, elongate mineral overgrowths, well-alighned elongate shapes

62
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What are stretching lineations?

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Mineral elongations that form parallel with the maximum extension direction of the structure on which they occur

63
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What is pitch-and-swell?

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Gentle oscillations of the thickness of the bed

64
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What is boudinage?

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When the pitch-and-swell is periodically separated

65
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What does the shape of the boudins depend on?

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The contrast in the competence with the adjacent layers

66
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What are the three types of boudin shapes?

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Block, barrel, fish-mouth

67
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What is between separate boudins?

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Secondary mineral deposits

68
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When are boudins asymmetric?

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When formed in the presence of a layer parallel shear, their rotation may be with the sense of shear

69
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What are mullions?

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Convex surfaces with intervening cusps that form at the interface of layers of very different competence

70
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What do the cusps point to?

A

The more competent unit

EART28202 Structural Geology (10 decks)

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