mylonite in English

noun
1
a fine-grained metamorphic rock, typically banded, resulting from the grinding or crushing of other rocks.
Fine-grained mylonite developed in the fault corridor may have favoured aseismic deformation in the Shin volcano area.

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1. 5 I think the foliated rocks within the belt are mostly mylonite.

2. 9 In the zone there distribute mylonite with different metamorphose degree.

3. The Lapparent gneisses were apparently juxtaposed against adjacent supracrustal rocks along outward-dipping mylonite zones.

4. Based on SEM observance, the methods of gas adsorption and mercury pression were used to test micro hole frame parameters of mylonite and high grade gneiss in this paper.

5. Among these granitoids, the most important chemical difference is between calc-alkalic differentiated granitoids to the west and alkalicalcic more evolved granites to the east of an intraorogenic “suture” (the Mylonite Zone).