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To: cogitator

Great picture!

When we were flying into Washington, D.C. this spring, I noticed the Blue Ridge Mountains and they exhibited a similar pattern. We were high enough to see a couple of the folds.

Thanks!

In geology, these are probably anticlines or synclines, depending on which way the rocks dip.


3 posted on 12/04/2008 6:45:18 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple; cogitator

Yes, the unclines fold the opposite direction to the anticlines.


4 posted on 12/04/2008 6:54:53 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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