1. INTRODUCTION
Name : Imad Hussain
From : Yar Hussain Swabi KP Pakistan
University of Swabi : Geology department
Presentation Topic : FOLDS AND ITS TYPES
2. FOLDS
(FOLDS are bends or wavelike features in layered
rocks result of
geological process)
3. EXPLANATION
Fold shows behavior of a ductile material.
Most metamorphic rocks are intensely folded because
it is ductile under the high pressure and temperature
environment of deep burial and tectonic stresses.
Folding took place when the rock was buried at a
moderate depth where higher temperature and
confining pressure favor ductile behavior.
4. TERMINOLOGY
Axial plane: An imaginary plane containing all of the hinge
lines of a fold.
Hinge line/Axis: Line about which a fold appears to be hinged.
Line of maximum curvature of a folded surface.
Limb: Portion of a fold shared by an anticline and a syncline
5. TERMINOLOGY
The Hinge connects the two limbs of a fold.
Hinge Point is the point of maximum curvature and is
located in the center of the hinge zone.
•If the hinge line appears as a straight line it is called a fold
Axis.
•The Axial Surface (or axial plane when approximately
planar) connects the hinge line of two or more folded
surfaces.
6. •The Axial trace represents the intersection between the
axial plane and the surface of observation.
•The Inflection point is where there is a change in
curvature of a fold limb.
•The Interlimb angle is the angle enclosed by the two
limbs of a fold.
•The Enveloping surface is the surface tangent to
individual hinges along a folded layer
7. TYPES
1) Anticline: is a fold shaped like an arch with the
oldest rocks in the center of the fold. Usually the rock
layers dip away from the axis.
8. TYPES
2) Syncline: The fold shaped like a trough with
the youngest rocks in the center of the fold. The
layered rock Usually dips toward the syncline’s Axis.
10. TYPES
PLUNGING FOLD A fold in which the axis is not
horizontal On surface leveled by erosion of exposed
beds.
However, plunging anticlines
and synclines are distinguished
from one another by directions
of dip or by relative ages of beds.
11. TYPES
OPEN FOLD A fold with gently dipping limbs
and the angle between the limbs is large.
ISOCLINAL FOLD one in which limbs are nearly
parallel
to one another, implies larger shortening stress.
12. TYPES
MONOCLINE : A local steeping in a gentle
regional dip; a steplike fold in rock.
OVERTURNED FOLD : A fold in which both limbs
dip in the same direction.
RECUMBENT FOLD : A fold overturned to such an
extent that the limbs are essentially horizontal.
UPRIGHT FOLD : A fold with a vertical axial
plane.