A set of various geological images
Images describing geological phenomena in different rocks and produced by different processes
Feel free to use these images, just give the credits….
Iran
Fariman area
Fault plane with slickenside lineations indicating a sinistral strike slip sense of movement
Iran
Central Iran
Deep stylolites created by pressure dissolution, marked by dark insoluble oxides in Cretaceous carbonates
Northern Apennine
Bardi
Disharmonic folds in fine-grained turbidites (Scabiazza Sandstone, Late Cretaceous)
Sardinia
Cala Gonone
Plio-Peistocene basalts with polygonal fracture patterns (columnar basalts)
Himalaya
Himachal Pradesh
Intrusive dyke cutting a well-bedded Paleozoic sedimentary succession
Southern Alps
Laghi Gemelli
En-echelon fractures ,filled by quartz, in a red siltstone layer between sandstone beds (Permian, Verrucano Lombardo)
Southern Alps
Val Camonica
Cenozoic porphyric andesitic dyke cutting massive carbonate platform facies, with karstification documented by diffuse karren (Esino Limestone, Triassic, and dyke, Cenozoic)
Southern Alps
Orobic Alps
Alpine folding in bedded continental sandstone, with axial-plane cleavege. Glacial striations (Pizzo del Diavolo Fm., Lower Permian)
Southern Alps
Adamello Pluton
Gabbro and diorite intruded in sedimentary rocks here represented by Triassic limestone and dolostone, with contact metamorphism (Southern Adamello Pluton, Eocene)
Pennine Alps
Aosta Valley, Mt. Emilius
Large rock glacier displaying a steep front (left) and a set of ridges and furrows, indicating a downward flow movement from right to left.
Southern Alps
Orobic Alps
Rouche Moutonnée or sheepback with long glacial striations, cut in Permian rhyolite, marking the presence of a glacier (Last Glacial Maximum)
Graian Alps
Aosta Valley, South Mont blanc
Solifluction on a north-facing slope with Cretaceous calc-silicate shists debris, related to freeze-thaw processes