GEO 313 

Instructor: Robert J. Varga

 

Fault Images

all images by R.J. Varga
   Fault-propagation fold above a thrust, Valley & Ridge, TN

 
 Keystone thrust west of Las Vegas Nevada. Sevier-age thrust of dark Cambrian limestones over buff-colored Jurassic Aztec (Navajo) Sandstone.
   Minor thrust in Valley & Ridge, TN

 
 Minor conjugate normal faults cutting mid-Tertiary Cook Cyn. Tuff, Kingman, AZ.

 
 San Gabriel strike-slip fault juxtaposing Cretaceous granite (white) against Precambrian metamorphic rock (dark). San Gabriel Mtns., CA.
   

 

 

 Course Instructor:

Robert J. Varga
Associate Professor
Shoolroy Chair of Natural Resources
Department of Geology
The College of Wooster
Wooster, OH 44691
rvarga@acs.wooster.edu

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