Geologic horse

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A geologic horse sits between the walls of this normal fault. The fault plane traces from the upper right to the lower left of the image. The horse is the broad lens-shaped feature in the rock defined by the splitting and rejoining of the trace of the fault plane
A geologic horse sits between the walls of this normal fault. The fault plane traces from the upper right to the lower left of the image. The horse is the broad lens-shaped feature in the rock defined by the splitting and rejoining of the trace of the fault plane

"Horse" is the geological technical term used for any portion of rock bounded by two of more fault planes.

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