The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin: With Some Notes on Its Surface GeologySalisbury, Rollin D.
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The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin: With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology
Salisbury, Rollin D.
Physical geography; Wisconsin -- Description and travel
[Illustration: Fig. 4.--Diagram made by plotting the different dips now
at hand along a section from A to B, Plate II, and connecting
them so as to show the structure indicated by the known data. The full
lines, oblique or vertical, represent the beds of quartzite. The
continuous line above them represents the present surface of the
quartzite, while the dotted lines suggest the continuation of the beds
which completed the great folds of which the present exposures appear to
be remnants.]
[Illustration: Fig. 5.--A diagrammatic section showing the relation of
the sandstone to the quartzite.]
[Illustration: WISCONSIN GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. BULLETIN NO. V.,
PL. VII.
The East Bluff at the Upper Narrows of the Baraboo near Ablemans,
showing the vertical position of the beds of quartzite. In the lower
right-hand corner, above the bridge, appears some breccia.]
[Illustration: WISCONSIN GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. BULLETIN NO. V.,
PL. VIII.
Vertical shear zone in face of east bluff at Devil's lake.]
Near the shear zones parallel to the bedding planes, there is one
distinct vertical shear zone (Plate VIII) three to four feet in width.
It is exposed to a height of fully twenty-five feet. Along this zone the
quartzite has been broken into angular fragments, and at places the
crushing of the fragments has produced a "friction clay." Slipping along
vertical zones would be no necessary part of folding, though it might
accompany it. On the other hand, it might have preceded or followed the
folding.
Schistose structure probably does not always denote shearing, at least
not the shearing which results from folding. Extreme pressure is likely
to develop schistosity in rock, the cleavage planes being at right
angles to the direction of pressure. It is not always possible to say
how far the schistosity of rock at any given point is the result of
shear, and how far the result of pressure without shear.
Schistose structure which does not appear to have resulted from shear,
at least not from the shear involved in folding, is well seen in the
isolated quartzite mound about four miles southwest of Baraboo on the
West Sauk road (f, Plate II). These quartzite schists are to be looked
on as metamorphosed quartzite, just as quartzite is metamorphosed
sandstone.
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