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- Cataclasite is a cohesive granular fault rock. Comminution, also known as cataclasis, is an important process in forming cataclasites. They fall into...
- grain boundaries, a high density of shear faults, bands of cataclasite and ultra-cataclasite and some ductile shear structures. This deformation sequence...
- is now understood to have formed mainly by crystal-plastic processes. Cataclasite is a fault rock that consists of angular clasts in a finer-grained matrix...
- co****-grained cataclasite containing >30% visible fragments. Fault gouge – an incohesive, clay-rich fine- to ultrafine-grained cataclasite, which may possess...
- Amphibolite – Metamorphic rock type Blueschist – Type of metavolcanic rock Cataclasite – Rock found at geological faults – A rock formed by faulting Eclogite –...
- Outcrop showing hydrothermally altered cataclasite in green, within the Alpine Fault zone, Wai****upa River....
- keep their internal cohesion. The resulting type of rock is called a cataclasite. Fault breccia has no cohesion; it is normally an unconsolidated rock...
- breccias and cataclasites (protocataclasite, cataclasite, and ultracataclasite). gl****y pseudotachylites. Both fault gouge and cataclasites are due to abrasive...
- jointing **** Exfoliation joint Fissure Joint Vein Faulting Asperity Cataclasite Cataclastic rock Detachment fault Disturbance Fault friction Fault mechanics...
- original on 17 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022. Michael Bunds [@cataclasite] (17 January 2022). "Sure looks like we got a fourth p****age of the Hunga...