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DISLOCATIONS OF STRATA 



cline diverge downward, the outcrops will be more widely sepa- 

 rated, the lower the level at which they reach the surface. In 

 a syncline the limbs converge downward, and the effect of the 

 fault is therefore just the reverse of what occurs in the anticline. 



FIG. 108. — Great thrust fault, near Highgate Springs, Vt. (U. S. G. S.) 



In an area traversed by normal faults, the beds of the fault 

 blocks which are included between the parallel or intersecting 

 faults are usually not strongly folded. There is, nevertheless, a 

 close connection between faults and flexures, as the examination 

 of any disturbed district will show. Especially is this true of 



