Friday fauxld: liesegang banding at Giant City - Mountain Beltway

Today, the Friday fold is a fake! Looks like a nice set of asymmetric antiforms and synforms, right? But it ain’t! It’s naturally wiggly; primary not tectonic. The photo shows nothing more than differential erosion of hematite that was deposited by groundwater in permeable sandstone. It’s Liesegang banding! These hematite blobs are in the sandstone at Giant City State Park, south of Carbondale, Illinois. Several are cylindrical in form, presumably …

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Liesegang rings in a natural sandstone tile - Mountain Beltway - AGU Blogosphere

Mountain Beltway - AGU Blogosphere

Mountain Beltway - AGU Blogosphere

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