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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 the...
- co****-grained cataclasite containing >30% visible fragments. Fault gouge – an incohesive, clay-rich fine- to ultrafine-grained cataclasite, which may possess...
- keep their internal cohesion. The resulting type of rock is called a cataclasite. Fault breccia has no cohesion; it is normally an unconsolidated rock...
- 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...
- Outcrop showing hydrothermally altered cataclasite in green, within the Alpine Fault zone, Wai****upa River....
- Amphibolite – Metamorphic rock type Blueschist – Type of metavolcanic rock Cataclasite – Rock found at geological faults – A rock formed by faulting Eclogite –...
- textures are apparent, and some protomylonites can resemble foliated cataclasite or even some schists. Phyllonites are phyllosilicate (e.g., chlorite...
- breccias and cataclasites (protocataclasite, cataclasite, and ultracataclasite). gl****y pseudotachylites. Both fault gouge and cataclasites are due to abrasive...
- M.; McCallum, I. S. (1999). "Inferred Depths of Formation of Spinel Cataclasites and Troctolitic Granulite, 76535 Using New Thermodynamic Data for Cr-Spinel"...