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    School of Earth and Environment: Restoring A Plane

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    This document provides instructions for restoring folded and tilted sedimentary beds to their original horizontal position prior to deformation in order to determine the amount of tilting that occurred. The instructions involve plotting poles to bedding measurements, rotating poles to original bedding orientations, and determining the orientation of bedding before and after tilting events by moving poles along great and small circles on a stereonet diagram.

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    This document provides instructions for restoring folded and tilted sedimentary beds to their original horizontal position prior to deformation in order to determine the amount of tilting that occurred. The instructions involve plotting poles to bedding measurements, rotating poles to original bedding orientations, and determining the orientation of bedding before and after tilting events by moving poles along great and small circles on a stereonet diagram.

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    This document provides instructions for restoring folded and tilted sedimentary beds to their original horizontal position prior to deformation in order to determine the amount of tilting that occurred. The instructions involve plotting poles to bedding measurements, rotating poles to original bedding orientations, and determining the orientation of bedding before and after tilting events by moving poles along great and small circles on a stereonet diagram.

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    School of Earth and Environment: Restoring A Plane

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    This document provides instructions for restoring folded and tilted sedimentary beds to their original horizontal position prior to deformation in order to determine the amount of tilting that occurred. The instructions involve plotting poles to bedding measurements, rotating poles to original bedding orientations, and determining the orientation of bedding before and after tilting events by moving poles along great and small circles on a stereonet diagram.

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    School of Earth and Environment

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    Restoring a plane

    000° 000°

    ●● Plot the poles to bedding above ●● Read the new orientation of


    and below the unconformity this pole or if you find it easier plot
    the great circle to the new pole
    270° 090° ●● Rotate the pole to bedding above 270° 090° and take the reading from this.
    the unconformity to the equator.
    ●● Original orientation of bedding
    before later tilting - 058/86SE
    180° 180°

    000°
    ●● Return this bedding to horizontal
    by moving its pole along the equator
    to the centre of the stereonet (the
    pole is now vertical).
    Pole to bedding above
    the unconformity
    270° 090° ●● Move the pole to the bedding
    below the unconformity along the Pole to bedding beneath
    the unconformity
    small circle it is lying on by the same
    amount. Rotate back to north. This is
    the position of the pole prior to tilting
    180°

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