Tektonics excursion for undergraduates

  • Students in front of vertical carbonate layers at the Finne fault in a quarry near Burgwenden. View to the SE.
    Students in front of vertical carbonate layers at the Finne fault in a quarry near Burgwenden. View to the SE.
    Image: Christoph Grützner
  • Bedding planes of Lower Carboniferous slates in a quarry near Kamsdorf.
    Bedding planes of Lower Carboniferous slates in a quarry near Kamsdorf.
    Image: Christoph Grützner
  • Drone image of the Finne fault near Burgwenden. View to the SE.
    Drone image of the Finne fault near Burgwenden. View to the SE.
    Image: Christoph Grützner
  • Group image of participants
    Group image of participants
    Image: Christoph Grützner
  • Thrust
    Thrust
    Image: Christoph Grützner
  • Students looking for stretching lineations in a gneiss, which are important for the shear sense direction. Erzgebirge.
    Students looking for stretching lineations in a gneiss, which are important for the shear sense direction. Erzgebirge.
    Image: Madeline Richter
  • Prof. Ustaszewski sketches important textural features seen at the outcrop.
    Prof. Ustaszewski sketches important textural features seen at the outcrop.
    Image: Madeline Richter
  • Cenozoic columnar basalt at the Hirtstein in the Erzgebirge.
    Cenozoic columnar basalt at the Hirtstein in the Erzgebirge.
    Image: Madeline Richter