Suitcase fold

As suitcase wrinkles in the are tectonics concentric folds referred consisting former horizontal rock layers by lateral pressure during a geological were formed long period to trapezoidal or even rectangular profiles. They have flat, horizontal vertices and steep, almost right-angled legs.

Pronounced case folds can be found, for example, at Bergmatten near Metzerlen-Mariastein in the Swiss Folded Jura , also known as the Blue Anticline , or in the Ionian Folded Country in Greece.

literature

• Hans Murawsky, Wilhelm Meyer: Geological dictionary. Enke-Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3432841007 .
• Herder Lexicon Geography. Herder, Freiburg 1972, ISBN 978-3451217531 .