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    Mylonite is a fine-grained, compact metamorphic rock produced by dynamic recrystallization of the constituent minerals resulting in a reduction of the...
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    called mylonite. Certain kinds of rock, such as those rich in quartz, carbonate minerals, or olivine, are particularly prone to form mylonites, while...
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  • The Burlington mylonite zone is a 1.5 kilometer thick mylonite zone, resulting from the dynamic recrystallization and grain size reduction of rocks, running...
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    the microstructure of fine-grained carbonates such as the Lochseitenkalk mylonite in which the matrix grains are less than 5 μm in size. This method is also...
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    called mylonite. Certain kinds of rock, such as those rich in quartz, carbonate minerals, or olivine, are particularly prone to form mylonites, while...
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    gneiss. Other varieties of foliated rock include slates, phyllites, and mylonite. Familiar examples of non-foliated metamorphic rocks include marble, soapstone...
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    A mylonite showing a number of (rotated) porphyroclasts: a clear red garnet left in the picture while smaller white feldspar porphyroclasts can be found...
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  • crystallized from high-temperature hydrothermal water in the Leatherwood granite mylonite. The site was discovered during uranium prospecting in the 1970s, inspired...
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    Sykesville Formation on the steep, west-dipping Plummers Island fault and mylonite zones (Schoenborn, 2001) within an existing Plummers Island shear zone...
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    often closely associated with other extremely fine grained rocks (e.g. mylonite and cataclasite), and is extremely prone to alteration that often renders...
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    ductile deformation field. Gneissic texture may occur nearby, if not then mylonite zones, foliations and ductile behaviour, including stretching lineations...
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  • metamorphosed limestone Migmatite – Mixture of metamorphic rock and igneous rock Mylonite – Metamorphic rock – A metamorphic rock formed by shearing Metapelite –...
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    Boudinage Competence Kinematic analysis 3D fold evolution Paleostress inversion Paleostress Section restoration Shear zone Mylonite Pure shear Shear Category...
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    clay-rich layers which are strongly deformed and sheared into the fault gouge. Mylonite – a fault rock which is cohesive and characterized by a well-developed...
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    the oldest rock may be represented by only one streak of minerals in a mylonite, representing a layer of sediment or an old dike. This may be difficult...
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  • orogeny in Fennoscandia: Back-thrusting and extensional shearing along the 'Mylonite Zone'". Precambrian Research. 189 (3–4): 368–88. Bibcode:2011PreR..189...
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    quartzitic mylonites. They characteristically lie with their longest dimension at a small angle to the mylonitic foliation. Mica fish in mylonites v t e...
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  • SENIOR HIGH SCH. UNIVERSITY OF WORLDWIDE MEDIA COLLEGE Gold Diamonds Basalt Mylonite Shale "Bogoso". www.tiptopglobe.com. Archived from the original on 4 March...
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    foliation S2 attributed to the regional NE-SW trending Bhavani shear. Mylonite development, biotitization, chlorination, and micro granulation are found...
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    in fracturing and simple faulting. Rocks typical of shear zones include mylonite, cataclasite, S-tectonite and L-tectonite, pseudotachylite, certain breccias...
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  • the Ross Lake fault itself, is a vertical zone of horizontally-lineated mylonite that separates upper-amphibolite-facies rocks of the Cascades crystalline...
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    abrasive wear on brittle, seismogenic faults. foliated mylonites (phyllonites). striped gneiss. Mylonites start to occur with the onset of semibrittle behaviour...
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  • Torridonian Lithology Primary metasandstone Other metasiltstone, semipelite, mylonite, conglomerate Location Region Inner Hebrides Country Scotland Type section...
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    Dextral sense shear folds in mylonites within a shear zone, Cap de Creus...
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  • Burlington mylonite zone to the north. Rocks along the fault have experienced both ductile and brittle deformation. There is relatively little mylonite in the...
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    visiting the West Coast can easily access high-grade metamorphic rocks and mylonites associated with the Alpine Fault, and in certain places can stand astride...
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    Retrieved 26 April 2020. Toy, Virginia (2008). Rheology of the Alpine Fault Mylonite Zone: deformation processes at and below the base of the seismogenic zone...
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    The Aswa Dislocation, also called the Aswa mylonite belt, Aswa Lineament or Aswa Shear Zone is a north-west trending ductile shear zone that runs to the...
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    Boudinage Competence Kinematic analysis 3D fold evolution Paleostress inversion Paleostress Section restoration Shear zone Mylonite Pure shear Shear Category...
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    Britain and indeed Europe. Closely associated with these gneisses are mylonite and meta-anorthosite and melagabbro. Along the eastern coast facing Mull...
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