This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...region, as shown by the general and detailed sections (Pls. II, III), is one of folding, so that horizontal beds are exceptional. They are only to be expected at the bottoms of the troughs or the tops of the arches of the folds, and therefore can hardly retain their horizontality for any great distance. An idea of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...region, as shown by the general and detailed sections (Pls. II, III), is one of folding, so that horizontal beds are exceptional. They are only to be expected at the bottoms of the troughs or the tops of the arches of the folds, and therefore can hardly retain their horizontality for any great distance. An idea of the folds of the region can be obtained by observing the minute folds in the little grayish dolomitic beds within the clouded marbles. These small folds, as it were, epitomize the large ones. The folding of the strata is the fundamental character of the region and the primary factor controlling the vertical and horizontal distribution of the marble. If a series of beds plunges in at one point it should emerge at another, for it is but part of a fold, and for the same reason if a series of beds emerges at one point, unless it is at the actual offshore beginning of the formation or unless faulting has occurred, the beds should be found to the east or west going down again and completing the original arch of the fold. The whole marble region should be. thought of as originally corrugated 'J/ri. 8 on a large scale, the corrugations /vy VrV"r. 8 running in a north-northeast or north-northwest direction. CHARACTER OF THE FOLDS. The folds are rarely symmetrical--that is, with both sides equally Figure lO.-Bottle-shaped fold in disused marble mclined_and the glgg of a sym. quarry 3 miles south of Brandon. m metrical fold may vary from a few degrees away from the horizontal to the vertical. Folds are known as open or close. A close normal fold is one shaped somewhat like a letter U, with both limbs parallel and pressed together. Most of the folds in the Taconic region are made up of minor folds. This is shown on a large scale in the east limb of the a...
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1912
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