mylonitic
English
Etymology
mylonite + -ic
Adjective
mylonitic (not comparable)
- Containing mylonite.
- 2000 June 23, Wolfgang Muller et al., “Isotopic Dating of Strain Fringe Increments: Duration and Rates of Deformation in Shear Zones”, in Science, volume 288, number 5474, DOI:, pages 2195-2198:
- Fibrous strain fringes up to ~12 mm long surrounding large (~5 mm) pyrites were collected from mylonitic carbonate-rich slates of Aptian age [~110 million years ago (Ma)] in the immediate hanging wall of a north-directed thrust of the Northern Pyrenees near Lourdes, France.
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