mylonites - ndsu · what are mylonites? foliated, usually lineated fault zone rock. presence of...
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Mylonites BY: DANIEL CHAVEZ
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What are Mylonites?
Foliated, usually lineated fault zone rock.
Presence of strong ductile deformation.
No “set” mineral composition; composition can vary depends on parent material.
Mylonite is a structural term that refers only to the fabric of the rock and does not give information on the mineral composition.
Present day use for mylonite refers to rocks dominantly deformed by ductile flow.
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Characteristics
porphyroclast - is a clast or mineral fragment in a metamorphic rock, surrounded by a groundmass of finer grained crystals.
Clear visible foliation
Sometimes folding.
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Types of folding
Chevron Folds
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Where do they form?
Mylonites form in ductile shear zones where there is significant strain.
Shear zone deformation in planar zones that accommodate movment of relatively rigid wall- rock blocks.
Mylonite Zone: high strain/ ductile shear zones. Can occur in any rock type and have been described from sub- millimetric scale to sones several Kilometers wide. (Bak et al. 1975; Hanmer1988)
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classification
Classification for mylonites depends on metamorphic grade at which deformation took place, or according to the lithotype or mineralogy where they develop.
Another way of classifying mylonites is based on the percentage of matrix as compared to porphyroclasts.
10 - 50% matrix = protomylonites
50 - 90% matrix = mylonites (or mesomylonites.)
>90% matrix = unltramylonites
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Pictures
All photos are 2.5x, with a field of view of 7 mm
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P-5 in thin section Mylonite in XP Mylonite in PPL
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P- 18 in hand sample.
PPL XP
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P- 6
XP PPL
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P-5
PPL XP
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Sample locations
These samples where collected in Patagonia, Argentina
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Other pictures
More highly deformed quartzo-feldspathic mylonite from the Redbank shear zone. Some layers are dominated by quartz ribbons and other layers contain fragments of broken feldspar surrounded by a fine-grained matrix of recrystallized quartz and cataclastic feldspar. (http://www.tectonique.net)
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Quartzo-feldspathic mylonite developed at greenschist conditions; feldspar deformed by regime 1 dislocation creep, quartz by regime 2 dislocation creep.(http://www.tectonique.net)
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Mylonite developed in quartzo-feldspathic aplite, deformed at greenschist grade in the Redbank shear zone. Quartz grains form thin ribbons wrapped around K-feldspar porphyroclasts. The feldspar porphyroclasts show some fracturing, the development of deformation.(http://www.tectonique.net)
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references
Passchier, C.W. and Trouw, R.A.J., 1996, Microtectonics: New York, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 289 p.98,102,
Bell, T. H. (1978). Progressive deformation and reorientation of fold axes in a ductile mylonite zone: the Woodroffe thrust. Tectonophysics, vol. 44, p. 285-320.
White, S. (1979). Grain and sub-grain size variations across a mylonite zone. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol 70, p.193-202.
http://www.tectonique.net/MeansCD/contribs/tullis/SlideSet/06_natdqr/natdqr_mylo_RB.html