From a meme running elsewhere in the geoblogosphere - things that make you go hmmm…

I never have quite sussed this outcrop. What happens to the orange sandstone and the faults?
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April 7, 2008 at 04:06
Oblique slip, it’s gone in or out of the outcrop face (?)
April 12, 2008 at 14:15
It isn’t oblique-slip - the slickenfibres are all dip slip. I’ve just been and revisited the site and what you can’t see from the photo is that the base of the sandstone is a thrust so the bottom part of the structure is under the beach to the left of the image.