Mike Read / Folded rocks on beach with cliffs above. Sandstone and shale beds in Bude Formation. Bude, Cornwall, England, UK. August 2018

Mike Read / Wave-cut platform on beach. Folded sandstone and shale beds of Bude Formation. Bude, Cornwall, England, UK. August 2018.

Rick Price / Banding and folding of rock on cliff above Cyclone Creek. Talbot Bay, The Kimberley, Western Australia. 2015.

Rick Price / Banded and folded rock on cliff beside Cyclone Creek. Talbot Bay, The Kimberley, Western Australia.

Graham Eaton / Folded Carboniferous age sandstone and shale (Culm Measures) in plan view, deformed by compression during the Variscan or Hercynian orogeny, a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic...

Graham Eaton / An anticlinal fold in Carboniferous age sandstone and shales. This fold and deformation was formed by compression during the Variscan or Hercynian orogeny, a geologic mountain-building event caused by...

Graham Eaton / Folded Carboniferous age sandstone and shale (Culm Measures) deformed by compression during the Variscan or Hercynian orogeny, a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental c...

Graham Eaton / Conjugate kink bands in Carboniferous turbidite shales, Bude, Cornwall, UK, May

Graham Eaton / An anticline in deformed Carboniferous sandstones and shale (Culm Measures) near Bude, Cornwall, UK, March. These rocks were deformed during the Hercynian or Variscan Orogeny, a mountain building even...

Graham Eaton / Steeply dipping beds of Carboniferous age sandstone and shales (Culm measures) on the flank of a large fold. This deformation was formed by compression during the Variscan or Hercynian orogeny, a geol...

Graham Eaton / Tilted beds of sandstone and thin shales of the Carboniferous, Culm Measures (Bude Formation) Sandy Mouth near Bude, Cornwall, UK, May. The bed represent cycles of deposition associated with climate c...

Graham Eaton / Tilted beds of Carboniferous age, Culm Measures (Bude Formation) sandstone and shale, Bude, Cornwall, UK, May.

Graham Eaton / A Chevron or Kink fold anticline in Carboniferous age turbidite sediments. Bude, Cornwall, UK, may.

Graham Eaton / Tilted beds of sandstone and thin shales of the Carboniferous, Culm Measures (Bude Formation) Sandy Mouth near Bude, Cornwall, UK, May. The bed represent cycles of deposition associated with climate c...

Graham Eaton / Folded Carboniferous age sandstone and shale (Culm Measures) in plan view, deformed by compression during the Variscan or Hercynian orogeny, a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic...

Graham Eaton / Small extension (normal) faults within a layer of shale between two layers of more competent sandstone. Carboniferous, turbidites, Bude, Cornwall, UK, May.

Graham Eaton / Chevron recumbent folding in Carboniferous age sandstone and shale (Culm Measures), deformed by compression during the Variscan or Hercynian orogeny, a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late...

Graham Eaton / Recumbent folds in Carboniferous age sandstones and Shale (Bude Formation), Bude, Cornwall, UK, May. The rocks were deformed during the Hercynian Orogeny or mountain building event.

Graham Eaton / Recumbent folds in Carboniferous age sandstones and Shale (Bude Formation), Bude, Cornwall, UK, May. The rocks were deformed during the Hercynian Orogeny or mountain building event.

Graham Eaton / Small Waterfalls at Sandy Mouth beach, near Bude, Cornwall, UK, March. The rocks are steeply dipping Carboniferous age, sandstone and shale (Culm Measures).

Graham Eaton / A small waterfall at Sandy Mouth beach, near Bude, Cornwall, UK, March. The rocks are steeply dipping Carboniferous age, sandstone and shale (Culm Measures).

Graham Eaton / Quartz infilled tension cracks in a boulder on the beach. Millock Haven, Cornwall, UK, March

Graham Eaton / A thrust fault in Carboniferous age Sandstones and shales (Culm Measures) at Crackington Haven, near Bude, Cornwall, March. The rocks comprise the Crackington Formation of thinly bedded turbidite sand...

Graham Eaton / A thrust fault in Carboniferous age Sandstones and shales (Culm Measures) at Crackington Haven, near Bude, Cornwall, March. The rocks comprise the Crackington Formation of thinly bedded turbidite sand...

Graham Eaton / A small relay thrust fault in steeply dipping Carboniferous age Sandstones and shales (Culm Measures) near Bude, Cornwall, March.

Graham Eaton / An anticlinal fold in Carboniferous age sandstone and shales. This angular anticline is a kink fold with a defined fracture along the fold axis. These rocks were folded and faulted during the Variscan...

Graham Eaton / A box fold formed by intersecting kink folds in Carboniferous age Sandstones and Shales (Culm Measures) at Menanchrurch near Bude, Cornwall, March. The deformation of the rocks formed during the Varis...

Graham Eaton / Chevron folded Carboniferous age sandstone and shale (Culm Measures), deformed by compression during the Variscan or Hercynian orogeny, a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic cont...

Graham Eaton / A monocline fold with a minor thrust fault in Carboniferous age sandstones, Bude, Cornwall, UK, May.

Graham Eaton / Chevron recumbent folding in Carboniferous age sandstone and shale (Culm Measures), deformed by compression during the Variscan or Hercynian orogeny, a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late...

Graham Eaton / Monocline fold that has been faulted during the Variscan orogeny, in Carboniferous sandstone and shale. Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK, May

Graham Eaton / A monocline fold that has been faulted during the Variscan orogeny, in Carboniferous sandstone and shale. Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK, May

Graham Eaton / Sea cliffs, geological section through Cambrian and Ordovician sedimentary rocks with faulted monocline fold structure. Rocks include Nant-pig Musdstones, Abersoch, Gwynedd, Wales, UK

Graham Eaton / Cilan Headland, a headland of folded and tilted Cambrian and Ordovician age sedimentary rocks, Abersoch, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, August 2016.

Graham Eaton / Steeply dipping beds of Silurian age turbidite sediments, Clarach Bay, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, September 2014.

Colin Monteath/ Hedgehog House / Folded ridges, Northern Territory, Australia

Colin Monteath/ Hedgehog House / Folded ridges, Northern Territory, Australia

Colin Monteath/ Hedgehog House / Folded ridges, Northern Territory, Australia

Colin Monteath/ Hedgehog House / Folded ridges, Northern Territory, Australia

Philippe Clement / The Rock of Falize, a Frasnian limestone anticline (convex geological fold) from the Devonian era. Durbuy, Belgium

Philippe Clement / The Rock of Falize, a Frasnian limestone anticline (convex geological fold) from the Devonian era. Durbuy, Belgium

Tui De Roy / Geologic folding, Digges Island, Hudson Bay, Canada

Graham Eaton / An anticlinal fold with minor thrusting in carboniferous, Culm Measures geological strata formation, Bude, Cornwall, UK. January, 2022.

Graham Eaton / Folded Silurian age turbidite sandstone and mudstone along the shore at Clarach Bay near Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. March, 2016.

Graham Eaton / A recumbent chevron fold in Carboniferous, Culm Measures, sandstone and shale, with associated thrust faulting, Millook Haven, Cornwall, UK. January, 2022.

Graham Eaton / A recumbent chevron fold in Carboniferous, Culm Measures, sandstone and shale, with associated thrust faulting, Millook Haven, Cornwall, UK. January, 2022.

Graham Eaton / Folded Pre-Cambrian age, metamorphic rocks, along the coast, Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales, UK. July, 2021.

Graham Eaton / Chevron folding in Carboniferous, Culm Measures sandstone and shale, Millook Haven, Cornwall, UK. January, 2022.