Syncline
Syncline Hill Spring, Alberta
What an awesome piece of geology. This is a syncline where a flat piece of sedimentary rock has been folded. It is fairly easy to see the fold. It simply boggles my mind to try and comprehend the tremendous pressures involved in accomplishing this. I also have trouble comprehending how long this bending and shaping has been going on. This whole concept of continental plates colliding with one riding up over the other is plain to see but so hard to comprehend.
Syncline near Hill Spring, Alberta
On the right side of this picture there is a layer of distinctive rocks that are angled up at about a 70-degree angle. Then an almost vertical strip of green grass blocks the view and that same layer of rock is again visible on the other side of the fold as it is being bent like someone bending a flat piece of cardboard.
Syncline near Hill Spring, Alberta
This is one last look at that "fold". It is so hard to comprehend how this could happen.
Syncline in Hells Canyon, Oregon
Syncline, anticline and dike visible in Hells Canyon, Oregon
The anticline is on the left with the syncline in the middle. It looks to me like an intrusion (dike) of molten rock bent an overlying layer of ancient lava. This is in an area of tremendous volcanic activity millions of years ago so the entire area has been covered numerous times with lava flow. That looks like a dike of molten rock that was intruding toward the surface that created the anticline on the left.
Syncline and anticline visible in Hells Canyon, Oregon near Dam on Snake River
Joyce took this picture in 2007 when we visited Hells Canyon on the Snake River from the Oregon Side. This formation was visible near the Dam on the Snake River. It isn't hard to spot since the contortions in the rock are so evident and awe inspiring. That is a syncline on the left with an anticline on the right. What an awesome piece of geology on display.
Syncline clearly visible from US-189 near Provo, Utah
This syncline is clearly visible in the otherwise flat lying layers of limestone.
That dip in the sedimentary rock is know as a syncline a fold that is concave upward. Extraordinary forces shape otherwise flat rock into that shape.
Syncline clearly visible from US-189 near Provo, Utah
This awesome syncline is visible from US-189 east of Provo, Utah.
Syncline clearly visible from US-189 near Provo, Utah
The normally flat lying limestone drops into this syncline visible from US-189 east of Provo, Utah.
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