Friday Field Photo #137: Dipping Strata in a Dry Wash

This week’s Friday Field Photo is from the Karoo desert of South Africa. I love when a drainage cuts across dipping strata in this way. You get nice cross-sectional views (on the left) combined with bedding-plane views (on the right). Note the 250 million year old ripple marks. Image: From my Flickr page

dipping strata in arroyo
This week's Friday Field Photo is from the Karoo desert of South Africa. I love when a drainage cuts across dipping strata in this way. You get nice cross-sectional views (on the left) combined with bedding-plane views (on the right). Note the 250 million year old ripple marks.

Image: From my Flickr page