Looking down on a fault plane developed in Cretaceous limestones
from the Chartreuse massif, French Alps. The fault surface is abraided by fine
straie and decorated by newly precipitated calcite (white patches). These have
opened on the "lee side" of steps on the fault surfaces. So we can infer that
the eroded upper side of the fault has moved in the direction the pencil points.
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