Geological landscapes and architectures
Some examples of geological landscapes from different places, describing how rocks record geological events
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Iran
Kavir desert
Cenozoic marls and silststones deformed at the northern border of the Kavir Desert: an asymmetric syncline can be observed, with a steeper limb (left-botton corner) and a horizontal limb (central part of the image)
Southern Alps
Orobic Alps
Alpine normal fault downthrowning the boundary between dark claystone and light-gray sandstone on the right (Pizzo del Diavolo Fm., Lower Permian)
Iran
Neka Valley, Alborz
Angular unconformity between folded Carboniferous limestone (dark, below) and bedded pelagic limestone (Late Cretaceous) along a flat erosional surface
Southern Alps
Concarena
High-relief, prograding carbonate plarform, with a toplap architecture (Esino Limestone, Triassic)
Southern Alps
Adamello Plutons
Magmatic dyles cutting Triassic limestone, affected by contact metamorphism (southern margin of the Adamello Pluton, Oligocene)
Southern Alps
Valcanale
Anisian-Ladinian carbonate succession overthrust on Ladinian massive carbonate platform facies (Triassic)
Iran
Alborz
Folds in Cenozoic marls along the southern slopes of the Alborz belt
Southern Alps
Orobic Anticline
Angular unconformity between Lower Permian sandstone (Pizzo del Diavolo Fm., bedding in yellow) and Upper Permian sandy conglomerate (Verrucano Lombardo, bedding in light blue),
Iran
Central Iran
Non-conformity between metamorphic basement (dark colour) and Cretaceous continental to coastal sediments (red) and overlying carbonates (brownish)
Southern Alps
Pegherolo
Onlap of dark claystone (with steep clivage dipping to the left) on massive, clinostratified slope carbonate breccias (Esino Limestone and Lozio Shale, Ladinian-Carnian)
Iran
Alborz
Angular unconformity between tilted greenish and white marls and overlying red conglomerate (Southern Alborz)
iran
Anarak
Non-conformity, with bedded carbonates resting on Paleozoic basalts; see small normal faults in the Cretaceous sediments
Southern Alps
Valcanale
Inner plarform facies, ESIB, covering prograding carbonate slope breccias, ESIA, downlapping on ammonoid-bearing basinal limestone, PRZ (Ladinian)
Central Apennine
Marche Region
Soft sediment deformation affecting a plurimetric interval in a turbidite succession, deposited in the Apennine peripheral foreland basin
Switzerland
Dent de Morcles
Cretaceous limestone and marls folded in the Elvetic Domains of the Alps