Pretty awesome History Channel video about the formation of Hawaii, which shows visually what I was explaining about hotspot island formation and plate tectonics. Check it out!
And here's a better example of folding than we saw today in class (from the USGS photo library):

And another on a larger scale:

try to follow the light and dark layers from the mountains on the left side of the image to the right side.
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