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. 2022 Dec 22;13:7893. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35208-2

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Fig. 2 — Outcrops location shown in Fig. 1b. a Approximately 20 m-thick BIF (Banded Iron Formation) ridge, showing gently east-dipping transposed bedding. b Panoramic view from Mt Mason, looking southward. Interlayered, weathering-resistant BIF and basalts are associated with a prominent topographic scarp, 100–200 m higher than the flat landscape at west, dominated by the more erodible granite. The consistently east dipping transposed bedding in BIF (marked by the dashed lines) can be followed for nearly 200 km along strike. c Close-up view of the transposed bedding in BIF, with tight isoclinal folds whose axes, subparallel to the stretching lineation, are invariably gently east-plunging. d View from above (parallel to the transposed bedding) of BIF exposure. The prominent stretching lineation is marked by elongate quartz-magnetite aggregates.