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Ougarta - Timimoun Fieldtrip
17-25 November 2000
Ball-and-pillow structures
in slumped, deltaic sandstones of Strunian (latest Devonian-earliest
Carboniferous) age. Slumps
are interpreted to have been triggered by syndepositional tectonics.
Hammer for scale.
(photo S.
Luning).
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