Features of Crustal Deformation

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Features of Crustal Deformation
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• Folded rock layers
• Monoclines
• bends or flexures
• Anticlines
• up-arched folds
• Synclines
• down-arched folds

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Strike and Dip
The orientation of rock layers Strike is the
compass direction of a line formed by the
intersection of an inclined plane with a
horizontal line
Dip is the measure of an inclined planes maximum
inclination from horizontal and is measured at
right angles to the strike direction
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Vertical Beds
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• Rock layers dip toward one another in a syncline
  and away in an anticline
• Older rocks are in the core of an anticline,
  younger in the core of a syncline

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Plunging and non-plunging folds
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