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mylonite +‎ -ic

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mylonitic (not comparable)

  1. 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[1], 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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