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- metamorphic rocks include breccias formed in faults, as well as some protomylonite and pseudotachylite. Occasionally, metamorphic rocks can be brecciated...
- by their modal percentage of matrix grains being between 50 and 90%. Protomylonites are mylonites which have experienced limited grainsize reduction, and...
- progressively more reworked and more heavily deformed upwards, p****ing from protomylonite to mylonite. Towards the top of the zone it becomes an ultramylonite...