This blog focuses upon stylolites which are structures that either form during burial or by later tectonic movements and have a serrated appearance on rock surfaces.
This blog looks at pairs of faults known as conjugates. Often, one fault is older than the other which can be determined if that fault has been displaced by the other. The example faults here are actually made up of deformation bands so could be described as compound zones of deformation bands.
These conjugate normal faults are found in the Permo-Trias Hopeman Sandstone, Inner Moray Firth, UK. Here we look at these within the context of Anderson’s model and what it means when for example interpreting seismic data.