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Conococheague limestone and dolomite beds form small scale noncylindrical recumbent folds with homoaxial mineral lineations (L9) on a semipenetrative axial plane foliation (S l ). Large scale recumbent folds are noncylindrical and nonplanar, but mineral lineations remain homoaxial on the scale of the area mapped. Analysis of a deformed oolite bed indicates that the rocks have undergone three-dimensional strain involving constriction. S l and L9 mark the principal flattening plane and elongation direction; small folds may have originated by simultaneous buckling in two principal strain directions.