#syncline

[cordially-stupid]

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!

[nemfrog]

“Synclinal hills and anticlinal valleys.” Earth sculpture or the origin of land-forms. 1898. 

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[happy-geology]

The axis of an asymmetrical syncline; here involved are Lower Pleistocene fluvial deposits.

[earthstory]

Fault Bend Fold Not every fault on the planet reaches the surface. In fact, most of them don’t. Many faults form at depths of several kilometers below the Earth’s surface and as they move, the rocks around them can be bent and folded without breaking.

This photograph shows a lovely example of a classic “Fault Bend Fold”. The lower layers in the shot where the hammer sits are soft and deformable enough that you can’t see the fault itself, but the folded layers are stronger and tell you exactly how it worked. A small thrust fault formed, allowing the softer rocks to squeeze upwards on a ramp. As that happened, the stronger layers bent around it. They rode upwards on the ramp on the left side, flattened out at the top, then came back down to their more normal level on the right hand side. The lower layers may even be soft enough to have deformed without actually breaking, flowing into the center of the fold and forming the same pattern. We find these kinds of folds at all scales, from smaller than seen here to across entire regions. They form the same pattern – rocks bending upwards then bending back downwards – and can be recognized even in large scale by pairs of folds called anticlines and synclines. -JBB Image credit: https://flic.kr/p/PZD8k Miguel Vera León

[bzzrk]

Released on June 25th, 2021, listen to the new max-single Syncline by Digital Gnosis. Both tracks began as seeds and elements created in Endlesss, a powerful always-looping audio studio/plugin that uniquely is cloud-based and easy for anyone to participate and build upon, remix and transform sounds.

The first track was created as a submission for the Unfolding #1 challenge, which feature sonic elements from a few of the several participating artists (Afta8, Firephly, Littlewing), then further transformed. The subsequent track invited the 3 artists back to jam in Endlesss on segments and clips, exploring new sonic paths, which Digital Gnosis used to transform the first track radically into the 9-minute, bassline driven electronica track that it became.

[kordalien]

Shorter hike, but it turns out the coast is prettier than inland.

The forbidden ice cream cone is high on my list of buildings to eat, even if the air force would be big mad.

This little overhead arch of Cypress trees was quite pretty, coastal Cypress as a whole is a lovely incredibly figured plant.

Making it down the bluffs to the beach wà exciting, since the local sandstone is incredibly weathered and the syncline gives the shore a unique figure.

This new tree working it's way out of an old piece of drift(?)wood was amazing.

All together a satisfying hike that make me think I should get a CPL filter for the camera so water comes across a little better

[wenbochenphoto]

Almost perfect! (northern Peru).

[drrockclub]

Folding

Sedimentary layering in rocks helps to clearly visualize deformations that the rock has undergone. Here, we can see a result of compression applied in sideways fashion (from the sides), this causes the rock to buckle without breaking and a series of anticlines and synclines (concave and convex structures).

Qinling Mountains, China