Rock Unit Boundaries - contacts between rock units

Common Geologic Map Symbols of different agea and/or different composition

Describing orientation of geologlc features wtth strike and dip

- - contact certain •..•• con111cts lnlerred beneath

------ contact mrerred sedimentary cover

FOLDS FAULTS
normal fault u
/ ---:::7\ honglng -11 down D
u Is on Ille up11ne11
side (foot wall)
D Is on Ille

~--
down-dro1111ed sJlle
(IUlhQlno Wall)

dip angle
& direction
strike
direction
++
anticline syncline
plunging folds
strlke-sllp fault
__,),.

~
vertical beds horlzonal beds hair arrows
show direction
or raunmotion

reverse fault
hanging wall up
e • e e
triangles on
plunging upper plate

t beds Inclined
straight up
L strata Inclined ffi nat-ll/lno
I 36 at an anole W strata
anticfine

roocwalldo',,n
Oianglng wall)

+ • ♦ ft.

triangles on

+
basin upper plate
arrow 11oln1s In
rold dip !llrectlon