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Draw in The Empty Square What The Folded Layers (Or Syncline) Would Look Like On The Back Face

This document provides instructions and examples for identifying different types of geological folds based on cross-sectional views. It asks the reader to sketch what rock faces would look like after cutting planes are applied to blocks containing folds. It also includes questions about identifying synclines versus anticlines, the relationship between plunge and bed dip, and determining axial plane dip from limb bedding.

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Draw in The Empty Square What The Folded Layers (Or Syncline) Would Look Like On The Back Face

This document provides instructions and examples for identifying different types of geological folds based on cross-sectional views. It asks the reader to sketch what rock faces would look like after cutting planes are applied to blocks containing folds. It also includes questions about identifying synclines versus anticlines, the relationship between plunge and bed dip, and determining axial plane dip from limb bedding.

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PART II: FOLDS

1. Draw in the empty square what the folded layers (or syncline) would look like on the back face.

2. For each syncline below, draw what the exposed face along the cutting plane would look like in the
empty squares.
3. For both anticlines below, draw what the face exposed along the cutting plane would look like in
the squares provided.

4. For the plunging syncline below, sketch the right face of the block.
5. For each plunging syncline below, draw what the exposed face along the cutting plane would look like in
the squares provided.

6. Look at the plunging anticline below and sketch what the back face would look like in the empty square.
7. Look at the vertical fold below and sketch what the bottom face would look like in the space provided.

8. Look at the vertical folds below and sketch what the exposed face would look like if part of the block in
front of the cutting plane were removed.
9. Below on the left is an image of a block with a fold in it. What type of fold is this? Which two faces of
the block could the image on the right represent?

Fold type: Syncline


Face 1: Right

Face 2: Left

10. Below, the same small block is shown with four different cutting planes. Circle the small image that,
when cut and the front-most portion removed, would result in the image you see above the small
squares. Hint: Pay attention to the orientation of the cutting plane and where it intersects each folded
layer.
11. Below is an image of a block containing a fold and a cutting plane. Circle the small image below that
could be the top face of the block after the cutting plane removes the top portion.
12. The image below is of a fold that is overturned, rather than vertical. In the empty square sketch the
appearance of the bottom face.
Answer the following questions:

1. If you were looking at one fold in isolation on the land surface, how would you tell
whether it is a syncline or an anticline?

Dip of beds(into syncline, away from anticline), age of


sediments(old in center of anticline, young in center of
syncline)

2. What is the relationship between the plunge of the folds and the dips of the beds
located along the axes of the folds?

They both the same

3. How would you tell, qualitatively, the dip of the axial plane of a given fold from the
dips of the layers
on the two limbs of the fold?

Axial plane divide the limbs, so everyone can figure out


geometrically

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