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Another landform to tick off - the Earthquakes graben, one of the Waitaki Whitestone Geopark sites, where a large section of the hillside went for a wander, and opened up a chasm promptly filled with chunks of more of it.
It also had a fossil whale that had fallen out of the cliff
vienna. graben.
Hello fellow geology enthusiasts! I've finished my structural class and have now put some of my homework on my redbubble! link is to the socks version >:3 Enjoy!
ESA has published an image captured by its Mars Express space probe's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) instrument of Aganippe Fossa, a f
ESA has published an image captured by its Mars Express space probe's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) instrument of Aganippe Fossa, a formation that has the appearance of a scar on the surface of the planet Mars which is truly colossal given that it's approximately 600 kilometers long. This rift valley is a geological formation of the type called graben in jargon. There are no certainties about its formation but it's probably linked to lava flows under the enormous volcanoes of the Tharsis region, starting with Arsia Mons, the closest to Aganippe Fossa.
The Graben, Vienna, 1962. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
The simplest kind of fault When rocks tear and break they can do so in a variety of ways, depending on whether they are being pulled apart (aka extension to geologists), pushed together (compression) or slid alongside each other (strike slip, like the San Andreas) by the tectonic forces affecting the area. This example is a normal fault from Iran, produced by pull apart forces, at least on a local level. The layers pick out very well the block of rock that has dropped between two others, and the two fault lines bordering it. The tectonics in Iran are complex, the main forces are compressive as Arabia separates from Africa and is in a slow motion collision that is closing the Persian Gulf. As the rock is pushed out of the way and uplifted to form mountains such as the Zagros range some regions are twisting and buckling in a rotatory motion, leading to local extensive forces and normal faulting. Loz Image credit: https://twitter.com/HaakonFossen
