Hello friends, the following publication I do in reference to the science of geology, and today I want to talk in this publication about the geological formations that are represented in the foldings of the mountains, in this post will be defined basic concepts on folding and other terms associates, I invite you to observe this interesting information!
Folding or folding, is a deformation of rocks, usually sedimentary, in which elements of a horizontal nature, such as strata or planes of schistosity (in the case of metamorphic rocks), are curved forming elongated undulations and directions more or less parallel to each other.
The folds originate by compression efforts on rocks that do not break them; instead, when they do, so-called failures are formed. They are usually located at the edges of the tectonic plates and obey two types of forces: lateral, caused by the interaction of the plates (convergence) and vertical, as a result of the lifting due to the phenomenon of subduction along a zone of subduction more or less broad and elongated, in which the ridges or reliefs of folding rise.
The folds can be classified according to several characteristics:
By the arrangement of its layers according to age:
For its shape:
Antiform: The fold is convex upwards, every first generation antiform fold is an anticline.
Synthetic: The fold is concave upwards or convex downwards, all first generation synplish fold is a syncline.
For its genesis:
Folds of first generation: They are the original folds of an orogen.
Folds of successive generations: They are folding of the folds themselves, they can be studied thanks to the phenomenon of foliation, they are the cause of changes in the shape-antiquity relationship of the layers in the folds.
Because of its symmetry
Symmetrical with respect to the axial plane
Asymmetric with respect to the axial plane.
By the inclination of the axial plane
Straight: the axial plane is in vertical position.
Inclined or lying: the axial plane is inclined.
Recumbents: the axial plane is very inclined or horizontal. In these cases, an inversion of the stratigraphic record can be produced.
For the thickness of its layers
Isópacos: their layers have a uniform thickness.
Anisopacos: Their layers do not have a uniform thickness.
For the angle formed by its flanks
Isoclinales: its flanks are parallel.
Tightened: the flanks form an acute angle.
Soft: the flanks form an obtuse angle.
The folds are not usually found isolated, but are associated. The simplest associations of folds are:
