TEM images of cataclastic fault rock evolution

The photomicrographs are viewed towards NE and were cut normal to fault plane and parallel to movement direction; where no scale is shown the field of view is 2mm.

For other examples see: optical, SEM, CL, EBSD, indentation.

For further details, see: Lloyd and Knipe. 1991, Journal of Structural Geology; Knipe and Lloyd, 1994, Pure and Applied Geophysics 142, 229-254; Lloyd 1987, Mineralogical Magazine 51, 3-19.
 
 

TEM images of cataclastic microstructures
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