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Near the eastern base of the Taconic Range, in extreme southwestern Vermont, a complex of chlorite slate is exposed in the position of the floor of a thrust along which a mass of dolomite-limestone has been pushed from the east against, and over, the slate. In addition to the common structure, exhibiting westward-overturned open folds, with slip cleavage dipping eastward, about parallel with the axial pianos, the slate displays a number of subsidiary shears or thrust zones having the same orientation as the principal thrust. In these zones, a strong lineation as well as axes of small folds plunge E—SE, parallel with the direction of propagation of the thrust blocks. The origin of the lineation and lamination is believed to be identical with that of corresponding structures in rolled steel and glass.
However, the formation of folds with axes parallel to the direction of thrust requires an additional shear stress acting perpendicularly to the direction of thrusting. The inhomogeneous composition, strength, and mobility of the flooring rocks are pointed out, and it is suggested that unequal rates of yielding of local rock masses below the thrust block generated these supplementary stresses, producing slight movements of small masses sideways. That this is a reasonable explantation is shown by experiments on salt dome structure byEscher andKuenen, in which also axes of folds and lineation parallel with the direction of maximum forward propagation were produced.
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Balk, R. Faltenachsen in Überschiebungszonen. Geol Rundsch 41, 90–103 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01803492
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