In geology, a slickenside is a smoothly polished surface caused by frictional movement between rocks along a fault. This surface is typically striated with linear features, called slickenlines, in the direction of movement.[1]
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In geology, a slickenside is a smoothly polished surface caused by frictional movement between rocks along a fault. This surface is typically striated...
projection. If a fault has lineations formed by movement on the plane, e.g.; slickensides, this is recorded as a lineation, with a rake, and annotated as to the...
from Saint-Marcel, Valle d'Aosta, Italy Amphibole epidote schist with slickensides from Benguet, Philippines, showing epidote lens In geotechnical engineering...
fault plane is a planar feature that may contain linear features such as slickensides. These orientations of lines and planes at various scales can be plotted...
be difficult to distinguish from other geological formations such as slickensides. Geologists have various theories of what causes shatter cones to form...
granite. Some of the most well known canyons include Wingate Slot Canyon, Slickenside Canyon, Talc Canyon, Owlshead Canyon, Contact Canyon, Granite Canyon...
lenses that terminate in acute angles. They are commonly bounded by small slickensides. Lenticular —The units are overlapping lenses parallel to the soil surface...
vegetation grew in a shape of a crest. He believed the Mooshaft to be a slickenside – two enormous blocks of sandstone moved in opposite directions which...
cleavage planes lying in the directions of maximum elongation of the mass. slickenside A smoothly polished surface caused by frictional movement between rocks...
are packed or distributed. Features such as layers, joints, fissures, slickensides, voids, pockets, cementation, etc., are part of the structure. Structure...
microtectonic indicators. The main macroscopic indicators are striations (slickensides), slickenfibers, and stretching– or mineral lineations. They indicate...
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Lambert azimuthal projection to plot lineation and foliation in rocks, slickensides in faults, and other linear and planar features. In this context the...
associated with shrinking and swelling produces shiny shear planes (slickensides) in the subsoil and either prevents the formation of subsurface horizons...
Type B paleosols have high proportions of smectite and mica, frequent slickensides, wedge-shaped crevices (mudcracks in cross-section), and strong redoximorphic...
the museum at Ottawa and doubt its organic origin. It seems to me a slickensided mud concretion striated by pressure." Sprigg, Reg. C. (1947). "Early...
sense of stress, but they may not appear in the actual fault patterns. Slickenside lineations normal to fault plane intersection Symmetrical sense of motion...
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