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Early joint formation in sediments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. C. Cook  and
K. R. Johnson
A. C. Cook
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Wollongong University College, Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia
K. R. Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Wollongong University College, Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia
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Summary

Jointing in some ‘ironstone’ intraclasts in a sandstone from the Sydney Basin, New South Wales shows that the joints were developed prior to contemporaneous erosion. A number of other features observed in the Sydney Basin sequence support this conclusion and suggest that an anisotropic horizontal stress field developed in the sediments very soon after their deposition.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 107 , Issue 4 , July 1970 , pp. 361 - 368
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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