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Raised Cobble Beach, Scotland (Photo © Duncan Heron) Firth of Forth

Raised Surf-Cut Terrace (Photo © Duncan Heron) Firth of Forth, Scotland

Raised Surf-Cut Terrace as a Golf Course (Photo © Duncan Heron) Scotland

Submerged Roman Market Place, Pozzouli, Italy (Photo by Dick Parker)

Columns in Market Place (Photo by Dick Parker)

Columns Showing Borings (Photo by Dick Parker)

Another View (Photo by Dick Parker)

Diagram of Disconformity (From Atlas of Seismic Stratigraphy)

Disconformity, Grand Canyon (Photo by Kenneth Hamblin)

Angular Unconformity (From Atlas of Seismic Stratigraphy)

*Angular Unconformity, Grand Canyon (Photo by Kenneth Hamblin)

Nonconformity (From Atlas of Seismic Stratigraphy)

Nonconformity, Grand Canyon NP, AZ (Photo © Duncan Heron)

Local Unconformity (From Atlas of Seismic Stratigraphy)

Local Unconformity, Grand Canyon (Photo by Kenneth Hamblin)

Review of Unconformities (From Atlas of Seismic Stratigraphy)

The Hutton Unconformity, Scotland (Photo © Duncan Heron) Siccar Point, Berwickshire

Closer View of the Hutton Angular Unconformity (Photo © Duncan Heron) Siccar Point, Berwickshire

*Still Closer View (Photo © Duncan Heron) Hutton's Unconformity

Horizontal Bedding in Grand Canyon (Photo by Ruth Eddy)

Horizontal Bedding (Photo © Duncan Heron) KY

*Dipping Beds (Photo © Duncan Heron) Catawa Mt., VA

Dipping Beds, CA Coast Range (Photo © Duncan Heron)

Dipping Beds Illustrating Strike and Dip (Photo © Duncan Heron) Firth of Forth, Scotland

Vertical Beds (Photo by Dave Bush) Puerto Rico

Fold Types, Monocline, Anticline, Syncline

Part of a Monocline, CO (Photo © Duncan Heron)

Monocline, New Mexico (Photo © Duncan Heron)

*Anticline, Rainbow Gap VA (Photo by Henry Johnson)

Fisheye of Anticline (Photo © Duncan Heron) Rainbow Gap, VA

Syncline, WV (Photo © Duncan Heron)

*Closeup of Syncline (Photo © Duncan Heron)

Overturned Beds, Complex Fold (Photo © Duncan Heron) Eagle Rock, VA

Overturned Beds (Photo © Duncan Heron) Eagle Rock, VA

*Overturned Folds (Horizontal Axial Planes) (Photo by Ron Perkins)

Ridge & Valley Topography of East TN (Photo from Skylab)

S and Canoe Shaped Ridges, PA (Photo from Skylab)

Plunging Folds, Harrisburg, PA (Photo from Skylab)

Valley & Ridge Topography, Central PA (Landsat)

Valley & Ridge and Blue Ridge/Piedmont of VA

Three Generations of Folds (Photo © Duncan Heron) Western NC

Joints (Photo © Duncan Heron)

*Conguate Joint Pattern, Australia

Plan View Columnar Joint Pattern (Photo by Jim Mueller)

*X-Section of Columnar Joints, Devil's Postpile, CA (Photo by Jim Mueller)

Two Lava Flows, Yelowstone NP, WY (Photo © Duncan Heron)

Normal Fault, Harris Power Plant (Photo © Duncan Heron) Wake County, NC

*Same Fault Showig Drag on Hanging Wall (Photo © Duncan Heron) Wake County, NC

Slickensides (Photo © Duncan Heron)

Small Thrust Fault (Photo © Duncan Heron) SC

*Thrust Fault (Photo © Duncan Heron) I 75 north of Knoxville, TN

Thrust Fault (Photo © Duncan Heron)

Copper Creekr Thrust Fault (Photo © Duncan Heron) I 75 north of Knoxville, TN

Copper Creek Thrust, 6 km Displacement (Photo © Duncan Heron)

San Andreas and Garlock Faults, San Gabriel Mts., CA (Photo from Skylab)

San Andreas Fault near Palmdale, CA (Photo © Duncan Heron)

San Andreas Fault, Bay Area, CA (Photo from Skylab)

San Andreas Fault, Central CA (Landsat)

San Andreas Fault Offset of Fense, Pt. Reyes Nat. Seashore (Photo by Jim Mueller)

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