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In structural geology, a mylonite is a fine-grained, strongly foliated rock produced in a fault or shear zone where rock deformed by ductile flow rather than by brittle fracture, its original grains reduced in size and smeared into streaky layers as the crust slid at depth. Sibson's 1977 Fault rocks and fault mechanisms placed mylonites within a classification of fault rocks, distinguishing them from the broken, cohesionless products of shallow brittle faulting. The referent is a specific class of ductilely sheared rock, diagnostic of deformation below the brittle–ductile transition, identified by its grain-size reduction and penetrative fabric.[1]
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