Food FaultingThis is an example of a “structural geology experiment” done with basic kit
Food FaultingThis is an example of a “structural geology experiment” done with basic kitchen ingredients. Flour, sugar, salt – different sized grains have different properties, and some (like flour) even stick together fairly rigidly.This experiment was created by piling up several layers of different ingredients and then pulling them apart (by tugging on some sort of black layer seen at the bottom right that was originally buried at the bottom). As the layers were pulled apart, the upper layers collapsed downwards forming a series of faults and folds.This pattern of a single down-dropped block is called a “graben” and it occurs all over the world in settings where layered, sedimentary rocks are pulled apart.You could even do this in your own kitchen; however, I’m not cleaning up the sediments afterwards.-JBBImage credit: Gunnar Rieshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Amphibolhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graben_formation.jpgOther types of geology demonstrations:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnn_nNbYwGEhttp://tmblr.co/Zyv2Js1bUpvj4http://tmblr.co/Zyv2Js1NPRTf3http://tmblr.co/Zyv2Js1omTAgY -- source link
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