Cataclasite is a cohesive granular fault rock. Comminution, also known as cataclasis, is an important process in forming cataclasites. They fall into...
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grain boundaries, a high density of shear faults, bands of cataclasite and ultra-cataclasite and some ductile shear structures. This deformation sequence...
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coarse-grained cataclasite containing >30% visible fragments. Fault gouge – an incohesive, clay-rich fine- to ultrafine-grained cataclasite, which may possess...
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Amphibolite – Metamorphic rock type Blueschist – Type of metavolcanic rock Cataclasite – Rock found at geological faults – A rock formed by faulting Eclogite –...
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keep their internal cohesion. The resulting type of rock is called a cataclasite. Fault breccia has no cohesion; it is normally an unconsolidated rock...
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Outcrop showing hydrothermally altered cataclasite in green, within the Alpine Fault zone, Waikukupa River....
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Cataclastic rock (section Cataclasite)
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...
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breccias and cataclasites (protocataclasite, cataclasite, and ultracataclasite). glassy pseudotachylites. Both fault gouge and cataclasites are due to abrasive...
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jointing Dike Exfoliation joint Fissure Joint Vein Faulting Asperity Cataclasite Cataclastic rock Detachment fault Disturbance Fault friction Fault mechanics...
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textures are apparent, and some protomylonites can resemble foliated cataclasite or even some schists. Phyllonites are phyllosilicate (e.g., chlorite...
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jointing Dike Exfoliation joint Fissure Joint Vein Faulting Asperity Cataclasite Cataclastic rock Detachment fault Disturbance Fault friction Fault mechanics...
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and simple faulting. Rocks typical of shear zones include mylonite, cataclasite, S-tectonite and L-tectonite, pseudotachylite, certain breccias and highly...
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original on 17 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022. Michael Bunds [@cataclasite] (17 January 2022). "Sure looks like we got a fourth passage of the Hunga...
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Varve Wackestone Metamorphic rock Anthracite Amphibolite Blueschist Cataclasite Eclogite Gneiss Granulite Greenschist Hornfels Calcflinta Itabirite Litchfieldite...
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the name of ship "Gamma" used by the expedition. List of islands of Greenland Mylonite Cataclasite Gamma Ø, Mapcarta Place names, NE Greenland v t e...
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2019-11-07. Retrieved 2019-10-27. Kindred, Thane (2018). "Pseudotachylyte—cataclasite in the Damage Zone Located North of Box Elder Peak, Wasatch Mountains...
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ductile rock types. Cataclasites or pseudotachylite breccias with mylonite clasts are common, as are ductilely deformed cataclasites and pseudotachylites...
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either of the cataclasite series (non foliated) or the mylonite series (foliated). This was later modified to include foliated cataclasite. This classification...
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calcite or quartz. At depths greater than about 5 kilometers (3.1 mi), cataclasites appear; these are quite hard rocks consist of crushed rock fragments...
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includes dislocation breccia, breccia dikes, melt veins, pseudotachylites, cataclasites, shatter cones, megablocks, in the target rocks beneath and around the...
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GSA Conference Abstracts. Kindred, Thane (2018). "PSEUDOTACHYLYTE--CATACLASITE IN THE DAMAGE ZONE LOCATED NORTH OF BOX ELDER PEAK, WASATCH MOUNTAINS...
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process. Gouge and Breccia form in the uppermost, brittle regime while Cataclasite and Pseudotachylite form in the lower parts of the brittle regime, edging...
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associated with other extremely fine grained rocks (e.g. mylonite and cataclasite), and is extremely prone to alteration that often renders it unrecognisable...
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surrounding it. Excellent examples of hydrothermal alteration, fluidized cataclasite injection, and other mid- and upper-crustal fault processes abound along...
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metres (66 ft) wide; it is characterized by broken calcite fragments, cataclasite and veins produced by fluid flow within the fault. Joints in the rock...
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rocks, cataclasis forms a cohesive and fine-grained fault rock called cataclasite. Cataclastic flow occurs during shearing when a rock deform by microfracturing...
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events happened in the region. Moreover, the presences of breccias and cataclasites, that formed under brittle deformation, suggest that there was an initial...
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structures, including veins of pseudotachylyte, with a thin zone of cataclasite marking the top. The base of the zone contains eclogites but the metamorphic...
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M.; McCallum, I. S. (1999). "Inferred Depths of Formation of Spinel Cataclasites and Troctolitic Granulite, 76535 Using New Thermodynamic Data for Cr-Spinel"...
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allochthonous unit. The base thrust of the Giessen nappe consists of cataclasites, breccias and mylonites and forms a semi-horizontal thrust plane. Locally...
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