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Figure 9. The walls of Gorges Creek's lower cascade show deformed, folded rock. (Photograph by the author. More about the photograph)

Close examination of the rock surfaces above Gorges Creek shows small-scale folds of exactly the type you would expect to find where flexible layers of rock were being dragged over one another during development of a large scale fold in the overlying layers, just as a rug pad might crinkle as the stiffer carpet above was pushed laterally to create a fold.

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