Talk:Escarpment
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[edit] Cut from dip
The following was recently cut from dip, which is a disambiguation page. Someone may want either to integrate this material into this article or somewhere that it more belongs. Not a topic I know enough about to mess with. Anyway, if someone finds homes for these, make a note so that no one else wastes time on a task you already completed. -- Jmabel | Talk 08:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- Stratigraphic dip is defined as the maximum angle from the horizontal in the plane of a stratigraphic unit. The direction in which the dip should be measured is known as the dip-direction. If the surface of the unit is not accessible (for instance, only a cross-section of the unit is visible, as in a cliff-face), only the apparent dip can be measured.
- In the field, the dip-direction is commonly identified using either a clinometer, or by pouring water on the surface of the rock(if it is accessible) and observing the direction of flow. For any inclined surface, there will also be two directions of zero-dip. The direction that is anti-clockwise of the dip-direction is known as the strike.
See article Strike and dip. Vsmith 19:41, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
