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  1. Sample 3130A. Quartz, plagioclase, microcline, muscovite grains deformed in a fault zone. Field of view is approximately 5 by 7 mm. Created with the automated thin section imaging system at Williams College.

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  2. Thin section of micaceous quartzite from the Rattlesnake Thrust from Pownal, Vermont. Field of view is approximately 20 by 27 mm. Dark seams are muscovite-chlorite-rich layers, and some folds are defined by the layers. Scattered feldspar grains also present. Crossed polarizers at 65 degrees. Created with the automat...

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  3. Taken from a higher vantage point, this view encompases the Red Rock Canyon in the foreground (Jurassic Aztec Sandstone) and the Keystone Thrust and overthrust Paleozoic section (darker colors) in the distance.

  4. The Jurassic Aztec Sandstone sits below the Keystone Thrust just west of Las Vegas, Nevada.

  5. Thrust fault exposed along the road to Dante's View.

  6. These are synorogenic conglomerates deposited during the peak of Late Cretaceous Sevier Orogeny thrusting in the Utah-Wyoming Thrust Belt.

  7. Sevier age thrust fault at Ketobe Knob on the south side of Cedar Mountain in the San Rafael Swell, southeast of Cleveland, Utah. This is the iconic outcrop of the second major structure/geologic mapping project of the Fort Hays State University Geology Summer Field Camp. For more information about our field camp see...

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