Ah Bedrock... home of neolithic cartoon capers with one of the World's most famous of cartoon families...

Flintstones

Yes it's the Flintstones...

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As entertaining as Fred, Wilma, Barney & Betty may be, it is not my intention talk about animation here :no:

Indeed I'm here to focus on something I have very little or no knowledge about whatsoever... nothing new there then! :))

Geology...

Come on then, own up... what do you lot know about folding?

No, not bedsheets or towels... nor jeans or jumpers... :no: ... rocks! :yes:

When rocks deform by plastic deformation they can bend and fold... a bit hard to believe perhaps, but true nevertheless.

As I understand it the process of folding occurs when rock is compressed, as it is along colliding plate boundaries... tectonic plates, not dining plates! :roll:

Upturned folds are called anticlines and down turned folds are called synclines.

Anticlines and synclines are geologic structures, that is, they are folds in rock material.

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What we see here is a syncline within an anticline... available for all to see in the above cliff face at Southerndown. :)

Interesting lines don't you think?