EPIC - Geologic Features Collection: Folding Set I
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Sheep Mt. plunging anticline, Big Horn Basin, WY. (J. Shelton)
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Nose of a plunging anticline, Sheep Mt., Big Horn Basin, WY. (J. Shelton)
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Virgin anticline near St. George, UT. (K. Hamblin)
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Asymmetric syncline, Borah Peak, ID. (K. Hamblin)
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Asymmetric syncline, Borah Peak, ID. (K. Hamblin)
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Plunging syncline, Sucia Island, WA. (D. J. Easterbrook)
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Domes, Big Horn Basin, WY. (J. Shelton)
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Plunging anticlines, Big Horn Basin, WY. (J. Shelton)
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Plunging anticline, Big Horn Basin, WY. (D.A. Rahm)
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Upheaval dome, UT. (K. Hamblin)
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Plunging anticline, Split Mt., UT. (D.A. Rahm)
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Big Horn River cutting across the Sheep Mt. anticline, Big Horn Basin, WY. (D.A. Rahm)
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Plunging syncline, Big Horn Basin, WY. (D.A. Rahm)
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Buttes in flat-lying sandstone, Monument Valley, AR. (K. Hamblin)
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Small plunging syncline, New Zealand. (K. Hamblin)
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Homoclinal ridges (hogbacks), Capital Reef. (K. Hamblin)
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Homoclinal ridges (hogbacks), Capital Reef. (K. Hamblin)
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Sharp monoclinal flexure, Big Horn Range, WY. (D.A. Rahm)
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Waterpocket monocline, flat-lying beds on right, steeply dipping beds on left. (K. Hamblin)
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Monocline, the San Raphael Swell, UT. (K. Hamblin)
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Monocline, Caineville Reef. (K. Hamblin)
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Echo Clilffs monocline, AR. (D.A. Rahm)
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Monocline, Mexican Hat, UT. (D.A. Rahm)
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Waterpocket monocline, UT. (D.A. Rahm)
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East-dipping hogbacks along the Rocky Mt. Front Range south of Morrison, CO. (J. Shelton)
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Flatirons along homoclinal ridges of the San Raphael Swell, UT. (D.J. Easterbrook)
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Flatirons along homoclinal ridges of the San Raphael Swell, UT. (D.A. Rahm)
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Hogbacks along the Rocky Mt. Front Range, CO. (J. Shelton)
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Hogbacks along the Rocky Mt. Front Range near Denver, CO. (D.A Rahm)
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Plunging anticline and syncline, Sheep Mt., WY. (J. Shelton)
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Syncline near St. George, UT. (K. Hamblin)
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Kink folds near Hurricane, UT. (K. Hamblin)
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Virgin anticline near St. George, UT. (K. Hamblin)
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Big Horn River cutting through Sheep Mt. anticline, Big Horn Basin, UT. (D.A. Rahm)
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Zig-zag folds, Marathon Basin, TX. (D.A. Rahm)
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Dome near Sinclair, WY. (D.A. Rahm)
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Little Maverick Spring dome, Big Horn Basin, WY. (D.A. Rahm)
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Kettleman Hills dome, CA. (J. Shelton)
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Rocky Mt. Front Range, CO (J. Shelton)
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Susquehanna River cutting across plunging Harrisburg syncline, PA. (J. Shelton)
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Salt anticline, Paradox Basin. (D.A. Rahm)
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Salt anticline, Paradox Basin. (D.A. Rahm)
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Mesas and plateaus on flat-lying beds, Grand Staircase. (K. Hamblin)
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Kink fold, Virgin anticline near St. George, UT. (D.A. Rahm)
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Tight kink folds, Death Valley, CA. (K. Hamblin)
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Unconformity between Paleozoic beds and Precambrian crystalline rocks, Grand Canyon, AR. (K. Hamblin)
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Cliff and bench topography on flat-lying Paleozoic beds, Shoshone Point, AR. (K. Hamblin)
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Homoclinal ridges of a zig-zag folds in the Appalachin Mts., PA. (J. Shelton)
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Unconformity between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks, Grand Canyon, AR. (J. Shelton)
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