Folds

A meso-scale faulted multi-detachment fold, Khabr area, Kerman, Iran

A-type flanking folds

Alsótelekes, gypsum open pit

Angular fold train

Annapurna North

Anticlinal de La Tete de Bostan

Antiform, Pania di Corfino (Northern Apennines)

Antiformal stack

asymmetric fold

Baviaanskloof gneisses

Bedding and cleavage in Palombini shales

Bedding and clevage in Triassic quartzite, Monti Pisani

Bhuban Mohan Behera

Big Penn slate quarry

breccia spiaggia terra nera

Bunglass Point, Carrick Co. Donegal, Ireland

Camel Hills folded metapelite

Cashelgolan, Co. Donegal, Ireland

Cashelgolan, Co. Donegal,Ireland

Chamanbid Anticline

Chapeau du Gendarme fold

Chevron Fold -Scabiazza sandstone

Cilindro de Marboré

Col Ombert and diapiric anticline

Concentric fold

Concentric fold

Cordilleran orogenic base

Coriscao syncline

Coronitic eclogite of Sifah

Crenulation cleavage

Crenulation cleavage in metasandstone

Dalgaringa gneiss

Deformed veins (Rainy Lake)

Detachment folding

Detail of Col Ombert Thrust

Disharmonic folds, Marble Point

Farini d’Olmo Flysch (Paleocene-Early Eocene). Fold. Nure Valley. Piacenza (Italy)

Fault and fold in calcschist of Giens near Hyères, France

Fault and folds in Calanques, close to Marseille

Faulted fold with quartz veins

Flanking folds and boudins

fold and cleavage

Fold at Rio Marina

Fold in calcschist

Fold in marble, Apuan Alps

Fold in marly metalimestone (Northern Apennines, Italy) photo by Chiara Montomoli

Fold in Marne con Bisciaro

fold in the most external portion of the”Eclogitic Micaschist Complex” (Sesia-Lanzo Unit)

fold interference

Fold interference at Contortion Spur

Fold interference in metasandstones and phyllites (Internal Nappe, Gennargentu Zone)

fold interference pattern

Fold interference pattern

Fold interference pattern, Contortion Spur

Fold of Hans Cloos

Fold. Hinge Zone in Argille a Palombini – Cretaceous – Quercianella – Livorno – Italy

Folded Flysch Farini d’Olmo (Paleocene -Eocene) – Piacenza (Italy)

folded foliation

Folded gabbro dyke in serpentinites

Folded jaspers in Quercianella (Livorno)

Folded layer of amphibolite and micaschist

Folded leucosome, Punta Ottiolu, Sardinia

Folded Limestone (Zu Fm. – Rhaetian)

Folded marbles, Apuan Alps

folded metasediments

Folded migmatites, Antarctica

Folded migmatites, Punta ainu

folded mylonites

Folded radiolarites in Corsica

Folded Ribbon Cherts

Folded zigzagging vein (Rainy Lake)

Folded “Argille a Palombini” – Cretaceous – Quercianella – Livorno – Italy

Folding in a ductile shear zone

Folding in salt

Folds and foliation

Folds and metasomatized, retrogressed ex garnet peridotite (now serpentinized) boudins within amphibole-bearing migmatitic gneiss, Borgo outcrop Darengo Valley, Adula nappe

Folds in bedding

Folds in cherts, Elba island

Folds in comendites

Folds in Kaligandaki

Folds in marbles and stretched dykes, Elba Island

Folds in marbles, Dry Valleys

Folds in metalimestone (Northen Apennines, Italy)

Folds in metasandstone, Cardoso, Italy

Folds in micaschist

Folds in Pegmatite

Folds in salt mine, Realmonte, Sicily

Folds in the Annapurna Yellow Formation, Kaligandaki, Nepal

Folds in the Helvetic Wildhorn nappe

Folds on Fm. Trubi (Southern Sicily)

Folds on Fm. Trubi (Southern Sicily)

Folds on Fm. Trubi (Southern Sicily)

Folds, Colle di Tenda

Folds, Piombino

Garlaban and Sainte-Baume from Ruissatel

Giant sheath folds in Wadi Mayh

Hectometric overturned syncline

Hercinian folds in Ballota Beach

interference pattern figure, sheath folds “Paina Marble” mylonite

Intersection of two orthogonal fold-and-thrust structural trends. (Dolomites, Southern Alps)

Isoclinal fold in the LAC

Isoclinal folds in limestone

Isoclinal folds in marbles, Ross Orogen, Antarctica

Kinked foliation

Kinked schist, Malfatano beach

Közép-szék, Bükk Mts

Large-scale interference pattern by intersection of two orthogonal fold-and-thrust structural trends. (Dolomites, Southern Alps)

Late folding in the Southern Steep Belt

Leptyno-amphibolitic group

Limestone, Piombino

Malmesbury Group syncline Robben Island

Mazatzal Mountains Mullions

melt-filled conjugate shear zones

migmatic gneiss

Migmatic gneiss

Monte Cassio Flysch syncline, late Cretaceous, northern Appennines

More pseudoboudins

Mylonitic granite & pegmatite

Namibia Boudins

Neyriz Ophiolite area

Nilgiril Anticline

Oldest rocks in Africa

Overturned Fold

Overturned pillow lavas

Pania di Corfino Anticline

Permian evaporite rocks of the Bellerophon Formation pushed upward trough the nucleus of a diapiric anticline. (Dolomites, Southern Alps)

Pillow basalts and their sedimentary cover

Pillows in the Brévenne unit

Pizzo Intermesoli Fold

Pli de St Clément

Prefolding quartz veins (Rursee)

Ptygmatic folds

quartz veins and mullions

quartz veins and mullions

Recumbent Fold on a Ramp-Flat System

Recumbent folds

Red-pelite fold in calcschists, Apuan Alps

refolded crenulation cleavage

Refolded folds in marbles

Refolded isoclinal fold

Refolded isoclinal fold

Refolded isoclinal folds

refolded marble breccia

Reverse fault and folded quartz vein

Rheomorfic folds

Saint-Clément fold

San Andreas folds and faults

Sardic Angular Unconformity

sheared subcontinental mantle

Sheath fold in mylonite

Sheath fold in mylonite

Sheath fold – eye fold

Sheath fold, Elba island

Sheath folds in mylonitic marble

sheath folds in quartzite

Slump folding in the Karaj Formation

South Stack, Anglesey

South-verging folds (Samaria Gorge)

Strada romana, Aosta Valley

Stretching lineation in metaconglomerate

Superposed folds in BIF

Superposed folds in marbles

Synclinal basin

The Lovell Wash Syncline

Thrust in the Priestley Formation, Northern Victoria Land

thrusts intra-nappe double up australpine mesozoic cover (Ortles nappe) Rhetic Alps

Tight fold in Jurassic marble (Apuane Alps, Northern Apennines)

Tudela leucosomes

Upright folds in the Priestley schists, Ross Orogen, Antarctica

View of fumaroles and crater area

Villazón-Reigada Syncline (Cantabrian Zone, NW Iberia)

VMS in the Brévenne unit

West crater of Vulcanello

Yarweelor Gneiss

Yarweelor Gneiss

F1 fold, Argentiera

F1 fold, Scaglia Toscana

Interference of F1 and F2 folds, Orto di Donna, Lucca, Italy

Mazatzal Mountains Chevron Folds 1

refolded D1 structure

refolded D1 structure

F2 folds, Tukuche Peak

North verging F2 fold

Type-2 fold Interference

Type-3 fold Intereference