. Elements of geology : a text-book for colleges and for the general reader. Geology. 232 STRUCTURE COMMON TO ALL ROCKS. powerful horizontal squeezing. This is the case with the great slip in Southwestern Virginia, represented in Fig. 196. These are called re-. Fig. 203.—Section across Yarrow Colliery, showing the Law of Faults (after De la Beche). verse faults. In several hundred cases of great fissures, examined by- Phillips, in England, nearly all followed the law of normal faults.* Fig. 203 is a section across Yarrow Colliery, in which all the slips follow this law. Of the numerous slips f
. Elements of geology : a text-book for colleges and for the general reader. Geology. 232 STRUCTURE COMMON TO ALL ROCKS. powerful horizontal squeezing. This is the case with the great slip in Southwestern Virginia, represented in Fig. 196. These are called re-. Fig. 203.—Section across Yarrow Colliery, showing the Law of Faults (after De la Beche). verse faults. In several hundred cases of great fissures, examined by- Phillips, in England, nearly all followed the law of normal faults.* Fig. 203 is a section across Yarrow Colliery, in which all the slips follow this law. Of the numerous slips figured by Powell, Gilbert, and Howell, as occurring in the Plateau and Basin Eange region, nearly all follow this law. Fig. 204 is a section illustrating this Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901. New York : D. Appleton and Co.
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