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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...
- called mylonite. Certain kinds of rock, such as those rich in quartz, carbonate minerals, or olivine, are particularly prone to form mylonites, while...
- The Burlington mylonite zone is a 1.5 kilometer thick mylonite zone, resulting from the dynamic recrystallization and grain size reduction of rocks, running...
- called mylonite. Certain kinds of rock, such as those rich in quartz, carbonate minerals, or olivine, are particularly prone to form mylonites, while...
- often closely ****ociated with other extremely fine grained rocks (e.g. mylonite and cataclasite), and is extremely prone to alteration that often renders...
- in fracturing and simple faulting. Rocks typical of shear zones include mylonite, cataclasite, S-tectonite and L-tectonite, pseudotachylite, certain breccias...
- Sykesville Formation on the steep, west-dipping Plummers Island fault and mylonite zones (Schoenborn, 2001) within an existing Plummers Island shear zone...
- metamorphosed limestone Migmatite – Mixture of metamorphic rock and igneous rock Mylonite – Metamorphic rock – A metamorphic rock formed by shearing Metaconglomerate...
- A mylonite showing a number of (rotated) porphyroclasts: a clear red garnet left in the picture while smaller white feldspar porphyroclasts can be found...
- orogeny in Fennoscandia: Back-thrusting and extensional shearing along the 'Mylonite Zone'". Precambrian Research. 189 (3–4): 368–88. Bibcode:2011PreR..189...