Ga
Pseudotachylite
Crush breccia
Fine crush breccia
Crush microbreccia
Protocataclasit
e
Foliated
Foliated fault
breccia
Foliated gouge
Foliated
pseudotachylite
(fragments>0,5cm)
(0,1
cm<fragments<0,5
cm)
(fragments<0,1 cm
protomylonite
10-50%0-10%
Fault breccia
(visible fragments > 30%
of rock mass)
Fault gouge
(visible fragments < 30%
of rock mass)
Nature of matrix
glassGlass/devitrified
Incohesive
Random fabric
Grain growth
Tectonic reduction in grain size dominates; grain growth by recrystalzation and neomineralisation
pronounced
Ultracataclasit
e
Flinty crush
rock
Phyllonite varieties
Ultramylonit
e
Blastomylonite
50-90%
matrix Proportion of
Mylonite series
Mylonite
90-100%
Cataclastic series
Cataclasite