calcite slickenfibres (white) on a fault plane in marly limestones, Slovenian Alps. The shear sense of the hangingwall is towards the top of the picture.
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Calcite-filled hybride fractures (subhorizontal) in Cretaceous limestones affected by a spaced fracture cleavage. Istria Peninsula, Croatia.
Fault between Cretaceous limestones of the Sazani Zone (right) and flysch of the Ionian Zone (near Dukat, S Albania). Note that the disconformity between Ionian flysch and Quaternary cover is displaced by the fault.
The Dobrotino Fault is an Early Oligocene normal fault at the eastern margin of the Pirin Massif in SW Bulgaria. The fault is exposed along the east- (left-) dipping front faces of the hills. In the hanging wall of the fault (left), the syntectonic Mesta (Nestos) Basin developed in the Oligocene (see Georgiev et al., 2010).
Conjugate shear fractures affecting volcanic bombs within Miocene pyroclastic deposits of the Coastal Range, Eastern Taiwan. Coin for scale (bottom center next to the left fracture).
Low-angle normal faults in turbiditic sandstones, Magozd, Slovenia.
Calcite-filled hybrid fracture in Paleocene nummulitic limestones, Sveta Marina, Istria, Croatia.
title="Steeply dipping fracture cleavage in Mesozoic limestones (Istria, Croatia)"
Fracture cleavage (dipping steeply to the right) in Mesozoic limestones (Istria, Croatia)
Slickolites (oblique stylolites) on a sub-vertical fault plane in Lower Muschelkalk, indicating dextral relative motion (Bad Kösen, Germany)
Sub-vertical stylolite plane with horizontal teeth in Lower Muschelkalk oolite beds, indicating NW-SE contraction (NW Naumburg, Germany)
Slickenfibres and surface steps testify to a subhorizontal displacement direction in Mesozoic metasediments of the Canavese zone which is sinistral in map view (Southern Alps near Ivrea, Piemonte, Italy).