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The paper describes laboratory experiments illustrating deformation of soft sediments produced by slump, differential movement, and differential loading. It explains some of the structures developed, and suggests criteria by which soft-rock deformation may be differentiated from hard-rock deformation.
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Robert Ernest Rettger (1935) studied this question.
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