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chevron: a standalone construct

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Structural geology

A chevron fold: a fold with planar limbs meeting at a sharp angular hinge, forming a zigzag profile.

In structural geology, chevron refers to a chevron fold: a fold with planar limbs meeting at a sharp angular hinge, forming a zigzag profile. This meaning comes from Fossen (2010) in Structural Geology. Here chevron is not an inverted-v ordinary spanning the shield, one of the honourable ordinaries.[1]

Unit: rock fold
Recovery means: outcrop and cross-section analysis
Measured by: interlimb angle; wavelength

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ordinary1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct chevron plot1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct fold3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Fossen, H. (2010). Structural Geology. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511777806

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