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Steps facing against the slip direction: a model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

M. Lindström
M. Lindström
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Geowissenschaften(Geologie/Paläontologie)D-355 MarburgLahnbergeFed. Rep. Germany
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Summary

Dry starch-flour provides a light, suitably cohesive material in which slip structures can be produced. These resemble slickensides and offer some insight into one of the possible processes whereby structures occurring on natural slickensides may be produced. Steps consistently face against the movement direction. They form by the partial disintegration of temporarily coherent lumps dragged along the surface.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 111 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 71 - 74
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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