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Lachlan Fold Belt — The Lachlan Fold Belt (LFB) or Lachlan Orogen is a geological subdivision of the east part of Australia. It is a zone of folded and faulted rocks of similar age. It dominates New South Wales and Victoria, also extending into Tasmania, the… … Wikipedia
Lachlan Fold Belt — La Lachlan fold belt est une région géologique du sud est de l Australie correspondant approximativement au sud est de la Nouvelle Galles du Sud et à la majeure partie de l état de Victoria. D une superficie d environ 300 000 km², cette région a… … Wikipédia en Français
Lachlan fold belt — La Lachlan fold belt est une région géologique du sud est de l Australie correspondant approximativement au sud est de la Nouvelle Galles du Sud et à la majeure partie de l État de Victoria. D une superficie d environ 300 000 km2, cette … Wikipédia en Français
Cape Fold Belt — The Cape Fold Belt is the folded sedimentary sequence of rocks in the southwestern corner of South Africa. It is related to the Ventana Mountains near Bahia Blanca in Argentina. The rocks are generally sandstones and shales, with shales forming… … Wikipedia
Fold (geology) — For other uses, see Fold (disambiguation). Very tight folds. Formation near Moruya, New South Wales, Australia … Wikipedia
Fold mountain — Fold mountains are mountains formed due mainly to the effects of folding on layers within the upper part of the Earth s crust. In the time before either Plate tectonic theory developed, or the internal architecture of thrust belts became well… … Wikipedia
Fold-Thrust Belt — A Fold Thrust Belt is a series of mountainous foothills, adjacent to an orogenic belt, that form due to compression. Fold thrust belts commonly form in the forelands adjacent to major orogens as deformation propagates outwards. Fold thrust belts… … Wikipedia
fold-thrust hills — A landscape along an orogenic belt margin underlain dominantly by sedimentary rocks that have undergone intensive structural deformation via a series of sub parallel thrust faults and associated folds. The thrust faults typically merge along a … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
Greenstone belt — Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies. The name comes from the green hue… … Wikipedia
Maria fold and thrust belt — Ranges, Plains Thrusted Forms Country United States States … Wikipedia
Detachment fold — A detachment fold occurs as layer parallel thrusting along a detachment fault develops without upward propagation of a fault; the accommodation of the strain produced by thrusting results in the folding of the overlying rock units. As a visual… … Wikipedia
