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Day 28 : Gneissosity developed by deformation of granite. From the Lewisian near Gairloch, Scottish Highlands. Keele colloection.

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Day 27 : Refolded folds. Superimposition of later open folds on earlier isoclinal folds in the Eilde Schists of Loch Leven, Scotland.

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Day 26 : Folding in a phyllite containing alternating layers of psammite and pelite. Note...

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Day 25 : This is the Mid-Devonian Chercombe Bridge Limestone Formation from Buckfastleigh in Devon....

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Day 24 : A folded psammite from an unknown locality. Note the change in fold style from rounded to...

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Day 23 : A protomylonite from Stevenson Lake, Manitoba, Canada. Quartz has reduced in grain size but...

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Day 22 : A slate from Onich, near Fort William in Scotland displaying a crenulation (vertical) and...

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Day 21 : Folded psammite layer in mica-schist. Folded original schistosity and new...

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Day 20 : Here we have a mica schist, with a strong schistocity and mica mineral lineation that has...

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Day 19 : Continuing the theme of strained rocks, this is a metamorphosed conglomerate with flattened...

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Day 18 : Shear zone in amphibolite. Unknown locality, Keele collection.

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Day 17 : Isoclinal folds with an axial planar foliation refolded by later fold to produce type...

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Day 16. I often tease our palaeontologist that the only good fossil is a strain marker. So here are...

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Day 15 : I can't believe this boulder that I carried two kilometres down the shore of of Loch Leven in...

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Day 14 : Buckle folding in slate showing similar folds and the effect of differing layer thickness on...

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Day 13 : Disharmonic folding in a banded semi-pelite from Loch Leven, Scottish Highlands. Keele collection.

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Day 8 : Folds displaying change of amplitude and tightness. Locality unknown. Keele collection.

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Day 12 : Back to the folds. Folded schistocity in a garnet hornblende schist (the garnet is post...

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