Fault Gouge
Photographed by Michael P. Klimetz


"Reibungskonglomerat"

Sheared Carboniferous Paleosol(?)
Variscan Granite Sheared and Granulated During Eoalpine (Cretaceous) Orogenesis(?)

Murtel Trigdt


Canton Graubunden
SWITZERLAND
Photographed by Michael P. Klimetz


"Reibungskonglomerat"
[Rotated Quartz Clast with Pressure Shadows]

Sheared Carboniferous Paleosol(?)
Variscan Granite Sheared and Granulated During Eoalpine (Cretaceous) Orogenesis(?)

Murtel Trigdt


Canton Graubunden
SWITZERLAND
Photographed by Michael P. Klimetz



San Andreas Fault
Mecca Hills


Riverside County
CALIFORNIA
Photographed by Michael P. Klimetz


Lithified Fault Gouge
[Sheared and Compacted Rauwacke with Green Albula Granite]

Silvretta Thrust Zone
Sub-Silvrettide Lens

Val d'Escha


Canton Graubunden
SWITZERLAND
Photographed by Michael P. Klimetz


Lithified Fault Gouge
[Sheared and Compacted Rauwacke with Green Albula Granite]

Silvretta Thrust Zone
Sub-Silvrettide Lens

Val d'Escha


Canton Graubunden
SWITZERLAND
Photographed by Michael P. Klimetz


Lithified Fault Gouge
[Sheared and Compacted Rauwacke with Green Albula Granite]

Silvretta Thrust Zone
Sub-Silvrettide Lens

Val d'Escha


Canton Graubunden
SWITZERLAND