Tektonics excursion for undergraduates
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Students in front of vertical carbonate layers at the Finne fault in a quarry near Burgwenden. View to the SE.
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Bedding planes of Lower Carboniferous slates in a quarry near Kamsdorf.
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Drone image of the Finne fault near Burgwenden. View to the SE.
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Group image of participants
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Thrust
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Students looking for stretching lineations in a gneiss, which are important for the shear sense direction. Erzgebirge.
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Prof. Ustaszewski sketches important textural features seen at the outcrop.
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Cenozoic columnar basalt at the Hirtstein in the Erzgebirge.
Image: Madeline Richter