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Image number: 1825
Feature : Striated surface on a fault plane in quartzite
Grouping : tectonics
Discipline : geology
Year : 2005
Locality : Kalate escarpment, Lake Chishi
Country : Zambia
Region - tribe : Luapula - Luba
Physiographic region : Northern Zambian Highlands
Notice : Fossilized marks of horizontal slip movement in the roks (here quartzites). The missing block has moved to the right relative to the photographied block.
Reference : Delvaux de Fenffe, Damien,   2005    Image 1825.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"