earthshots - photographs of Earth

Mountains Intrusive Rocks Volcanic Rocks Sedimentary Rocks Metamorphic Rocks Structure Geomorphology


MacDonald fault scarp	Deformed mafic dikes	Transcurrent faults	Boudinage in gneiss


Folded sedimentary rocks	Folded sedimentary rocks	Thrust fault	Transcurrent faults


Deformed porphyritic granite	Paragneiss	Ptygmatic folds	Folded gneiss


Mylonitic gneiss	Fault-controlled valley	Deformed mafic dikes	Small thrust fault


Overturned unconformity	Rotated feldspar porphyroblast - Grenville shear zone	Folded sedimentary rocks	Overturned unconformity


Rigid boudinage in carbonate	Small transcurrent fault system	Transcurrent faults	Folded gneiss - world's oldest rocks - 4.0 Ga


Syncline and anticline	Anticline	Granite vein cutting garnet granulite	Sheath fold in shear zone


Folds and boudinage in straight gneiss	Fault cutting refolded straight gneiss	Attenuated folds in straight gneiss	Straight gneiss


Folds & boudinage in gneiss	Rotated pegmatite blocks in mylonitic gneiss	Sheath folds	Folded gneiss


Drag along ductile-brittle fault	Rootless fold in gneiss	Dismembered and rotated pegmatite blocks	Straight gneiss


Brittle-ductile faults	Assymetrical folds	Mylonitic granite	Kink folds in limestone-argillite rhythmites


Kink folds	Syn-volcanic thrust faults	Folds and fault	Faulted cobble


Thrust fault	Thrust fault surface	Aerial of thrust fault surface

robert hildebrand photography