The skipton rock fault--an Hercynian wrench fault associated with the Skipton Anticline, northwest England

A zone of deformation characterized by en échelon faults and folds extends along the Skipton Anticline. The zone is well exposed on its northern margin at Haw Park, where it involves early Dinantian strata. Here a high‐angle reverse fault–‐the Skipton Rock Fault–‐is broadly coincident with the axial surface of the Skipton Anticline. This fault and its associated subsidiary faults and folds form a structural pattern consistent with an origin in dextral convergent wrenching or transpression.