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1st Episode: These sedimentary layers were originally deposited horizontally. They've been folded
and crushed with huge tectonic forces for thousands of years and overall forces were compression
(Compressional regime). The appearance of folds shows that they are produced by the landscape
being pushed sideways. This explains the normal appearance of folds (prior to erosion) as a set of
parallel ridges where the landscape has been folded up (anticlines) alternating with troughs where
it has been folded down (synclines). Having a huge set of fractures due to alternate ductile and
brittle lithologies.
2nd Episode: Lateral movement is involved which is responsible for a shear component that is
pushing the folds themselves over sideways, resulting in a recumbent fold, after some time.
Explanation:
1st Episode: Showing some Squeezing related movements in Fault zone caused the horizontal
layers to be contorted into the folds visible in the roadcut.
2nd Episode: Due to continuous stresses a small fault that has broken one of the folds. These
relations show nicely how geologic materials deform (strain) in response to dynamic earth forces
(stress).
Explanation:
By looking Today's evidence that intense ductile deformation occurred are found mostly
in gneiss and marbles showing steep foliation, horizontal lineation, and numerous left-lateral shear
features - a type of deformation that leaves rocks looking like this.
1st Episode: The alternate layering of brittle and ductile lithologies are shown on the given
photomicrograph. It seems a thin section microphotograph showing several feldspar crystals with
bended tails. These tails show that they have once been deposited horizontally.
2nd Episode: Due to ductility contrast and continuous stresses they were slowly rotated clockwise.
These rolling structures are characteristic of lateral ductile deformation.
Explanation:
The ellipse is an elongated circle. It has a major axis and a minor axis. The length of the
major axis is greater than the length of the minor axis. If the major axis is vertical, then the ellipse
is called a vertical ellipse as showing in the given picture. If we look towards the deformation in
the given emojis showing homogenous strain and deformation because circles are converting into
ellipse and ellipse on the maximum stresses sides are converting into a circle again. The
phenomenon of conversion of the ellipse into a circle is called deviant deformation. These changes
are due to applying stress from the sideways to the given circle So, over all the deformation is
homogeneous with homogeneous strain.