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    School of Earth and Environment: Different Styles of Folds On Stereonets

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    This document discusses how to analyze and interpret different types of folds using stereonets. It explains that gentle folds will have poles to bedding concentrated near the axial plane, while tight folds will have a wider range of dipping. Upright folds will have axial planes plotted as straight lines and fold axes on the primitive, while inclined folds will have asymmetric distributions and curved axial planes. Plunging folds will have curved best fit girdles and fold axes plotted within the stereonet.

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    This document discusses how to analyze and interpret different types of folds using stereonets. It explains that gentle folds will have poles to bedding concentrated near the axial plane, while tight folds will have a wider range of dipping. Upright folds will have axial planes plotted as straight lines and fold axes on the primitive, while inclined folds will have asymmetric distributions and curved axial planes. Plunging folds will have curved best fit girdles and fold axes plotted within the stereonet.

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    This document discusses how to analyze and interpret different types of folds using stereonets. It explains that gentle folds will have poles to bedding concentrated near the axial plane, while tight folds will have a wider range of dipping. Upright folds will have axial planes plotted as straight lines and fold axes on the primitive, while inclined folds will have asymmetric distributions and curved axial planes. Plunging folds will have curved best fit girdles and fold axes plotted within the stereonet.

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    School of Earth and Environment: Different Styles of Folds On Stereonets

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    This document discusses how to analyze and interpret different types of folds using stereonets. It explains that gentle folds will have poles to bedding concentrated near the axial plane, while tight folds will have a wider range of dipping. Upright folds will have axial planes plotted as straight lines and fold axes on the primitive, while inclined folds will have asymmetric distributions and curved axial planes. Plunging folds will have curved best fit girdles and fold axes plotted within the stereonet.

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    Different styles of folds on poles to bedding will be widely distributed around whilst the axial planes of inclined folds will plot
    the best fit girdle (figure 16b). For chevron fold as curved great circles.
    stereonets
    with their straight limbs and sharp hinge zones
    The distribution of the poles to bedding around the poles to bedding will be in two clusters, one The best fit girdles of non-plunging folds will plot
    the best fit girdle relates to the interlimb angles for each limb (figure 16c). Inclined folds will have as straight lines great circles on the stereonet
    of the folds. A gentle fold will only have shallowly an asymmetric distribution around the best fit (figure 16a). For plunging folds the best fit girdles
    dipping beds and therefore the poles to bedding great circle reflecting the steeper and shallower will be curved great circles (figure 16b-d).
    will be concentrated close to the plot of the axial dip of the limbs (figure 16d).
    plane (figure 16a). A tight fold has beds with a The fold axes of non-plunging folds will plot on
    much wider range of dip from the very steep on The axial planes of upright folds will plot as the primitive of the stereonet, whilst the fold axes
    the limbs to horizontal in the hinge zone so the straight lines great circles on the stereonet, of plunging folds will plot within the stereonet.

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    a) b) c) d)

    270° 090° 270° 090° 270° 090° 270° 090°

    180° 180° 180° 180°

    Figure 16: a) Upright, non-plunging gentle fold. b) Upright, plunging, tight fold. c) Upright, plunging, chevron fold. d) Inclined, plunging, tight fold.

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