An
extended beleminite fossil seen on a cleavage plane in Liassic-age shales
at Leytron, Swiss Alps
Boudinaged
amphibolite layer within gneisses. Laxfordian complex, near Durness, Scotland
Tension
gashes
Tension
gash array developed in limestones
Grooves
on a gently overhanging fault surface cut into limestones in Sicily
Vein arrays seen on a bedding surface in Cretaceous limestones
Pitted
pebbles
Example
of pressure solution cleavage in silts from south Devon
Photomicrograph of fibrous reprecipitation of calcite around a "rigid" pyrite
grain
A
classic example of a stilolite seen here in Carboniferous limestones from
south Wales
Looking
down on a fault plane developed in Cretaceous limestones from the Chartreuse
massif, French Alps
Simple
tension gash array developed in Carboniferous limestones at the Mumbles,
South Wales
Photomicrograph of a calcite vein developed in a limestone
Example
of slatey cleavage formed in late Precambrian siltstones from the Hazara
hills, Pakistan