minnemooseus writes:
Well, he was talking folding lime mud, sand, and silt, not clay. That material may indeed just get all mixed up together . He was SORT OF on the right track, but didn't get it totally correct. Or something like that.
But Pressie's point is that there can be soft sediment folding. FEY, see the Wiki article on soft-sediment deformation structures. Especially see the convolute bedding section. This deformation is probably usually (yes, weasel words) pretty small scale. You are not going to find large scale soft sediment folding (other geologists welcome to tell me I'm wrong).
FEY, see what happens when you adopt the mainstream geology orthodoxy? Someone's going to hit you with the exception to the rule.
Well, the stiffness of modeling clay isn't what I had in mind when I made my claim. I was imagining something very wet still. Even with modeling clay, you get a mixing of the layers if you continue to squeeze it and roll it around in your hands. I remember getting gray colored balls as a result when I was a kid.
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