Flow Banding in the Felsite

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Flow Banding in the Felsite by Ashley Dace as part of the Geograph project.

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Flow Banding in the Felsite

Image: © Ashley Dace Taken: 8 Apr 2011

At first one could be forgiven for thinking this light coloured rock could be sandstone. These look like ripple marks, however they are probably flow banding marks. Image]

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Image Location

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Latitude
55.502855
Longitude
-5.339687