Synclinal-Anticlinal Folding

When the axes of adjacent folds are inclined, their intersection with the relatively flat ground surface results in the narrow sinusoidal shapes evident in this photo. As shown in the three dimensional illustration (Hamblin & Howard, 1975), drainage ways on the flanks of and across the ridges produce "v's" in the strata outcrops. As shown in the illustration here and in the monocline example, these "v's" point down dip of the strata. Thus the "v's" point toward the long axis (up and down the screen in this example) in a syncline and away from the axis in an anticline.

Base photo in low resolution with LINKED locations of high resolution 3D images (10s of kb)
Base photo in medium resolution to allow exploration of gray tone detail (100s of kb)
Three dimensional anaglyph photo at 1200 dpi (MBs JPEG file that will expand to 10s of MB)
Three dimensional illustration of the deposit
Photo of typical cross section
Example of typical quantitative characterization data

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