The contact between the light rock (Samford) and the Neranleigh-Fernvale Beds wa

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The contact between the light rock (Samford) and the Neranleigh-Fernvale Beds was shown to be a plane dipping at approximately 27 degrees at Cedar Creek. Comment on how planar the contact is and explain.

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Explanation / Answer

a planar surface can have only one strike, all the strike lines on a surface must be parallel if the surface is planar. Non-parallel strike lines on a surface indicate that the surface is not planar. here the contour lines are nearly parallell and the surface is planar and it dipping towards north east direction with dip 27 degree.

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