A vertical well drills through a part of the stratigraphic section twice (repeated section). What type of fault can we infer, and why can we not explain this by folding?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: This characterizes a reverse fault. Isoclinal folding would also represent a repeated stratigraphy, but the stratigraphy in the inverted limb would be inverted.
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