Pacific Beach Folded Sedimentation

Pacific Beach Folded Sedimentation
Name:Folded Sedimentation
Date:10/19/2006
Location:Tourmaline Beach San Diego California

This is one big mud sandwich, created very long ago. Some time in the distant past massive movement of earth slid along the cliff sides, sheets of mud were overlain upon each other where gravity and weight folded the mass near the basement edge. Further mud sheets were laid above, and lithified leaving this peculiar pattern of a once stormy event.


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