Synclines and anticlines–rock layers pushed into massive wrinkles

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- June 17, 2019 at 2:34 pm #7674
  
  Bernard Nebel
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  The settling of clay, silt, and sand particles necessarily leads to horizontal layers. However, we often see such layers curved up or down, the result of continental drift pushing horizontal layers into wrinkles.
  
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