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What is the difference between nappe and thrust sheet? "Nappe" is the French word for "tablecloth"; think of what happens when you try to push a tablecloth any distance across a table The resulting folded (and inverted folding) structure is very different to that created if you were to push a thick layer of dirt across the table
Recently Active terminology Questions - Page 2 What is the difference between nappe and thrust sheet? The titles of many geology articles contain words like "nappes and thrust sheets" Basically these are rather similar and in certain languages can be denoted with one term The dictionaries tend to geology tectonics terminology Knob Scratcher 2,813 answered Apr 17, 2017 at 3:49 6 votes
Highest scored geology questions - Page 6 What is the difference between nappe and thrust sheet? The titles of many geology articles contain words like "nappes and thrust sheets" Basically these are rather similar and in certain languages can be denoted with one term The dictionaries tend to geology tectonics terminology astrsk 61 asked Mar 14, 2017 at 15:34 6votes 0answers 33views
Is there a piece of upside down foreign crust in the USA? Could be the remainder of a nappe If the top part erodes only a piece of upside down crust could be left over, which seems to have no direct relation to the surrounding rock
What is the difference between eluvium and alluvium? I was reading about kimberlite on Wikipedia and it mentioned eluvium I've heard of alluvium, alluvial fans, alluvial deposits, etc However, when I looked up eluvium, it sounded exactly like alluv
Whats the difference between a crater and a vent? A vent opens through the side of a volcano, somewhere on its slopes The crater (and neck) can seal itself up, solidify over a period of inactivity, then re-open anew nearby to form a new crater Magma will more readily move through the interface between a solidified neck and surrounding ash matrix than it will through the center of a solidified neck alone
What is the metamorphic field gradient useful for? As I understand it, the metamorphic field gradient is the PT line traced out by the maximum temperature points of a series of PTt paths of rocks from the same metamorphic event What exactly is this