User talk:Schuetzler 62

Fault outcrop diagrams
Hi Schuetzler 62, I removed your recent additions to the Fault (geology) article, because I didn't find the images helpful in understanding the effects of dip-slip faulting on outcrop patterns. Something like that would probably be good, but I'm not sure what - I hesitate before saying that I'll come up with something myself, as I tend to promise such things and then forget them, so remind me! If you could explain exactly what you were trying to achieve it would be helpful. Were you trying to show that dip-slip faulting causes apparent lateral displacement of dipping strata? Mikenorton (talk) 20:54, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Mikenorton, my proposal is simply a method or rule of thumb to decide if you look at normal or reverse fault, if you know the direction of dip of the strata ( or know how old the different strata are)and the outcrop pattern. If you like, please see under Verwerfung (Geologie) in the german wikipedia the last part, which I wrote some time ago. It is a method to simplify a decision for people having difficulties to think in 3D images.  (Schuetzler 62 (talk) 12:37, 17 October 2012 (UTC)) 