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Kilve Beach
Sat, 05/10/2008 - 21:18Hi Matt
Sorry, I thought I had attached a picture but it didn't work and now I cannot seem to find a way to do it.
The Google Earth co-ordinates are:-
51 11 33 15 N
3 13 43 43 W
Elev. 8m
Not sure if this will work so here is the Google maps url.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=51.192456,-3.228264&spn=0.000931,0.002929&t=h&z=19
richard.k
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The attatchment feature
Sun, 05/11/2008 - 11:23The attatchment feature hasn't been working very well for a while unfortunately.
Definately a fault, but I'm not sure about the movement either. Towards the bottom right there's some fault drag that seems to indicate that both sides have moved to the north west. I think I might be able to pick up a couple of layers on both sides which makes it look like the north side has moved north west about 30-40m but I'm not sure.
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Mon, 05/12/2008 - 19:31I think you have to be careful here. The beds are shallowly dipping and the faulting (from memory) is mostly normal, but with variable displacement.
So, what looks like strike-slip is probably an artefact due to a change of bedding dip caused by drag on normal faults.
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I think what you are
Sat, 05/17/2008 - 10:02I think what you are refering to is a plunging anticline (if we are taking about the same thing of course). It baffled me when I went there at the beginning of doing a level.
John
“Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” - Will Durant
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My apologies. Perhaps I
Sat, 05/17/2008 - 10:07My apologies. Perhaps I should have looked at the image first!!!! I got the wrong beach. I was thinking of E Quantocks Head I think.
Sorry!
John
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Kilve beach feature
Submitted by richard.k on Sat, 05/10/2008 - 09:17.I had a look around Kilve beach recently and, when I got back, I had a look at the area on Google Earth. Can anyone analyse the feature running from the centre of the shingle beach towards the top left of the picture? I assume it is a fault but I cannot work out the curvatures and direction of movement.
You will see from this question that I am new to formal geology and have just started at the OU.
Thanks for any help.
Richard K.