Environmental Engineering Reference
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FIGURE 6.23
Stalactites (hanging) and stalagmites in a
limestone cavern (Cave-of-the-Winds,
Colorado Springs, Colorado).
Slate
Slate weathers quickly in a moist climate, developing a rugged topography intensely
patterned with many sharp ridges and steep hillsides. Drainage is fine rectangular den-
dritic.
6.3
Deformation by Folding
6.3.1
General
Significance
Mass Deformation
Deformation from compressive forces in the crust can result in the gentle warping of hor-
izontal strata, or in the intense and irregular folding of beds (see also discussion of cata-
clastic metamorphism in
Section 5.2.5).
It can proceed to overturn beds completely or it
can result in faulting and overthrusting (
Section 6.5)
.
