Load cast
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load-cast-292-8560332
title:
Load cast
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Load casts are bulges, lumps, and lobes that can form on the bedding planes that separate the layers of sedimentary rocks. The lumps "hang down" from the upper layer into the lower layer, and typically form with fairly equal spacing. These features form during soft-sediment deformation shortly after sediment burial, before the sediments lithify. They can be created when a denser layer of sediment is deposited on top of a less-dense sediment. This arrangement is gravitationally unstable, which en
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Bulges, lumps, and lobes that form on bedding planes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_cast
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2024-02-06T09:11:36Z
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