Pseudotachylyte (sometimes written as pseudotachylite) is an extremely fine-grained to glassy, dark, cohesive rock occurring as veins that form through...
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obsidian. In reverse, ultramylonite-like rocks are sometimes "deformed pseudotachylyte". Mesomylonites have undergone an appreciable amount of grainsize reduction...
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and rock fragments of similar composition to minerals in the matrix Pseudotachylyte – ultrafine-grained glassy-looking material, usually black and flinty...
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metamorphic rocks displays shatter cones, planar deformation features, pseudotachylyte veins, and impact melts and breccias. There is also evidence of planar...
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location. There are several lines of evidence that support this idea. Pseudotachylyte zones in the area, caused by intense frictional heat, mark the landslide's...
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Meteoritical Society Meeting Rajmon, D., Copeland, P. , Reid, A. M., "'Pseudotachylytes' that never melted: A Thermal Story from Roter Kamm Crater, Namibia"...
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granites are found in the northwest around Loch Phaibeil. A band of pseudotachylyte curves north the northwest through the centre of the island. The island...
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Corodale gneiss, dominated by garnet-pyroxene rock. A narrow zone of pseudotachylyte occurs along its western margin with the regular gneiss. The Usinish...
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original on 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2019-10-27. Kindred, Thane (2018). "Pseudotachylyte--cataclasite in the Damage Zone Located North of Box Elder Peak, Wasatch...
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Fault friction (section Pseudotachylytes)
Langone, A. (2013). "A seismogenic zone in the deep crust indicated by pseudotachylytes and ultramylonites in granulite-facies rocks of Calabria (Southern...
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